From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/26050 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: metafun: problems, problems & problems again Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:08 +0100 Message-ID: <43F97F78.509@wxs.nl> References: <6faad9f00602191520s5decf730r7cae44b7125c324@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1140424592 1430 80.91.229.2 (20 Feb 2006 08:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 08:36:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 20 09:36:30 2006 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 1FB6Wh-0005Om-Gr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1847412775; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:11 +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 07142-06; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC641277F; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7011277F for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:05 +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 07143-06 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id CA27312775 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:36:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 6284 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2006 11:36:02 +0300 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00602191520s5decf730r7cae44b7125c324@mail.gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:26050 Archived-At: Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Hello, > > This metafun will soon drive me crazy. > > 1. I can't make textext work > > Once upon a time I only had problems in MikTeX, now standone is > causing me problems as well. I have: > - write18 / -shell-escape enabled > - \runMPgraphicstrue > \runMPTEXgraphicstrue > \useMETAFUNformattrue > \protectbufferstrue > enabled (I don't know where to look further). > But I still get no figures at all under MikTeX and "undefined" labels > with the standalone. > that normally means that no tex subruns take place (or wrong ones) (maybe the system command is not executed, in the log you can see what write 18 does) you can try (on a mp file): texexec --mptex somefile.mp and see what is reported > 2. mptopdf doesn't work under MikTeX (as already mentioned), but > that's not so critical since I can still use texmfstart or write my > own .bat file to run it > forget about something mptopdf.exe, the bat method using texmfstart is the way to go > 3. metafun reformats the whole metapost source (including that in > verbatin) and so you can never predict what will come out; often the > TeX commands fail to work and while it's possible to easily debug > plain metapost sources, metafun swallows most of the error warnings > somehow, so you don't get any output, but no error reports either. > there is normally a -mpgraph.log file > 4. I have problems with \loadfontfilesoncetrue. I searched through > hm, loadfontfilesonce is not there (any more) > mailing list archives and found out that that problems was already > present in 2002 and that someone solved it by deleting all ConTeXt > files from MikTeX. I don't understand why since I have fresh MikTeX > distribution on the computer, but I'll try that. > maybe some old cont-sys.tex file? > 5. I hoped to be able to use gnuplot with context terminal, but the > file I produced crashes pdfetex 1.30.3--2.2 (in stand-alone distro). > 1.21a under MikTeX doesn't crash, but since there is no output it > might be that the older version never gets to the point where it would > crash. A very rare event. The files that make the pdftex crash are > located here: http://pub.mojca.org/gnuplot/pdftex-crash/ > Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------