From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31039 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \sometxt in staticMPfigure Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:11:59 +0200 Message-ID: <4519898F.4070903@wxs.nl> References: 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 1159303746 20692 80.91.229.2 (26 Sep 2006 20:49:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:49:06 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Sep 26 22:49:03 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 1GSJpO-0005Iq-9a for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:46:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E551FD30; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:46:37 +0200 (CEST) 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 07614-04-4; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:46:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7AF1FF68; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:12:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AE921FF68 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:12:06 +0200 (CEST) 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 05416-04-2 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:12:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 35BA31FF65 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:11:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.104] (unverified [10.100.1.104]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 10063 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2006 22:11:59 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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:31039 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: >> you can test the beta >> > > This gives the clearboxes error: > > =================== box.tex =================== > \startMPinclusions > input boxes > \stopMPinclusions > > \starttext > \startstaticMPfigure{fig} > boxit.h(btex h etex); > drawboxed(h); > \stopstaticMPfigure > \usestaticMPfigure[fig] > \stoptext > ===================================== > > The cause is that it produces this intermediate mp file: > > ========= box-fig.mp =============== > input boxes > boxit.h(btex h etex); > drawboxed(h); > =================================== > > This fails because all three lines go into a beginfig..endfig and > metapost fails. That may be a metapost bug in this case, but for > robustness I think it should become: > > input boxes > beginfig(1) > boxit.h(btex h etex); > drawboxed(h); > endfig; > end > > In order to do that transformation, box-fig.mp would need separate > sections for the inclusions and for the main figure code. > > Am I using inclusions incorrectly? i.e. Should I instead use > MPextensions to get material placed at the top of the metapost file > for use by all figures? Like this: > > =============== box-e.tex ================ > \startMPextensions > input boxes > \stopMPextensions > > \starttext > \startstaticMPfigure{fig} > boxit.h(btex h etex); > drawboxed(h); > \stopstaticMPfigure > \usestaticMPfigure[fig] > \stoptext > ======================================= > > But that produces > > (texexec-mpgraph.mp > >> boxit.h > ! Isolated expression. > > ( > l.148 boxit.h( > btex h etex > ? > > because the added extensions ('input boxes') are not included in > texexec-mpgraph.mp. > the problem (if you look into the mp file) is that there is *no* beginfig; this is because we now use a more stupid (stripped down) variant of saving the graphic. \startstaticMPfigure{fig} beginfig(1); boxit.h(btex h etex); drawboxed(h); endfig; \stopstaticMPfigure i'll add the b/e to the main macro. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------