From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24725 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: developing large numbers of MP files for inclusion in source Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:24 +0100 Message-ID: <43AE4F40.3070802@elvenkind.com> References: <2F1ECAB6-F02B-46C8-BC39-76F1B4F5AE2F@cox.net> <43AD1225.9030509@elvenkind.com> <1ED3A921-3CB2-4201-9D57-4F37A5BBC23B@cox.net> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135497019 24577 80.91.229.2 (25 Dec 2005 07:50:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 07:50:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 25 08:50:17 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1EqQdw-0005Ei-Ja for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95A2127B1; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:11 +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 15756-02; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC381127B2; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D24127B2 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:04 +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 15708-04 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:04 +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 00D52127B1 for ; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:50:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:57854 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-25.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1EqQdn-000BrX-In for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 25 Dec 2005 07:50:03 +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: <1ED3A921-3CB2-4201-9D57-4F37A5BBC23B@cox.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:24725 Archived-At: David Arnold wrote: > Do you have one metapost file with many figures in it? Is it possible > to just compile for the figurein that file that you want? Usually I have all in one file. You can comment out figures you do not need, using: if false: beginfig(1) ... endfig; .. fi So I normally do that with the first ten when I am working on the eleventh. Later, I just change the 'false' to 'true'. Sometimes metaposts "input" command is handier, but I prefer not to have too many files on disk. > Is there a > command that will compile then show the result? I use ghostscript for preview (gv, actually) or xpdf if there is embedded math/nontrivial text, by running mptopdf first. Like I said before: my setup is not hightech at all. Cheers, Taco