From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24586 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: metapost textext? Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:24:20 +0100 Message-ID: <43A98FC4.4080403@elvenkind.com> References: <075F2D26-BD3A-4A95-B73D-D5C1A1B8A7F1@science.uva.nl> <43A98442.6080303@wxs.nl> <43A989C3.50507@gmx.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135186448 2962 80.91.229.2 (21 Dec 2005 17:34:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:34:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 21 18:33:58 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ep7oD-0007FC-9s for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:31:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1432D127B5; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:31:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29704-01; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:31:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F14EF127F4; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:27:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349A0127F4 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:27:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29434-07 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:27:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-25.mail.nl.demon.net (post-25.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.195]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA0BE127B5 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 18:23:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:53647 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Ep7gs-0006b5-UU for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:23:51 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <43A989C3.50507@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24586 Archived-At: Peter Rolf wrote: > Hans Hagen wrote: > >>Hans van der Meer wrote: >> >> >>>Panic using metapost in context. >>>This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion >>>{1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for >>>textext calls! >>> >>>\starttext >>>\startuseMPgraphic{one} >>> draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0); >>> label (textext("label"), (10,25)); >>>\stopuseMPgraphic >>>\useMPgraphic{one} >>>\stoptext >>> >>>But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"! >>>What happened. This is disastrous. >> >>this normally points to an error in mp processing (unknown is the fall >>back text), not so much to something wrong with context (i hope) >> >>it runs ok here; how does it runs at other machines? >> > > no problem here (using latest version) > Runs without problems here as well. The most likely cause of problems in this subsystem nowadays is a "format was written by (pdf)(e)tex" error message from a (pdf)(e)tex executable. Unfortunately, I also find it hard to trace this stuff. It may help to run the example in an isolated directory and zip&mail everything in the directory afterwards. I can at least have a look, but cannot give guarantees. Taco