Re: Using metapost figures in context (offlist)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > n lines deleted
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I added to texexec:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> texexec --mpgraphic somefile.mp
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> which will run mp and make a pdf file.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Something is wrong with the new beta. I downloaded the zip and 
>>>>>> regenerated the formats, but only metafun format is created. I am 
>>>>>> attaching the output of
>>>>>>
>>>>>> texmfstart --verbose texexec --verbose --make --all
>>>>> actually, the problem is that the latest pdfetex is not called 
>>>>> pdftex; can you remove all traces or pdftex[.exe] in your bin path 
>>>>> and see what happens then?
>>>>
>>>> No pdftex is in the path.
>>>>
>>>> I call context by using
>>>> set PATH=E:\Ruby\bin
>>>> call E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat 
>>>> E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex
>>>>
>>>> so there should not be any mismatched executables.
>>> ah ... typo in base/tex.rb:
>>>
>>>   @@pdftex     = 'pdftex' # new default, pdfetex is gone
>>>
>>>   ENV['PATH'].split(File::PATH_SEPARATOR).each do |p|
>>>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> Can you test that?
>>
>> Yes, this works. The formats are generated correctly. However,
>> texmfstart texexec --mpgraphic file.mp
>>
>> does not give me a pdf file. I do understand why this is happening. I 
>> will dig into it a bit more and see what is going wrong.
>
> In tex.rb
>
>  def processmpgraphic
>  ...
>      if data =~ /output files written\:\s*(.*)$/mois then
>  ....
>
> However, if the mp file contains only one figure, the output in the 
> log is
>
> 1 output file written: figures-axis.1
>
> Notice /file/ instead of /files/. So the regex should be changed 
> according. Then everything works.

                if data =~ /output files* written\:\s*(.*)$/mois then

Hans 

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