Re: ConTeXt 2007.01.12 problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
>> that test should go into the test repos 
>>     
>
> I've committed it to the contexttest repo as
> tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex/test-001.tex
>
> By the way, in dvi mode the file fails unless "mpprocset:=0;" is put in the
> \startMPpositiongraphic.  Here's the error msg:
>
>   $ texexec --dvi --nonstopmode tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex/test-001.tex
>   // on "TeX run 2"
>   ...
>   [MP as EPS ./to-dvi-mpgraph.4000] [MP color conversion ./to-dvi-mpgraph.4000
>   ! Argument of \dodohandleMPcolor has an extra }.
>   <inserted text> 
> 		  \par 
>   <to be read again> 
> 		     }
>   \includeMPasEPS ...\the \!!heightb }\doinsertfile 
> 						    }\wd \scratchbox \!!widt..
>
> Taco had diagnosed this as due to ConTeXt not handling the new mpost
> procsets (hence the mpprocset := 0;).  Not sure why that lack doesn't
> hurt the run in pdf mode, but perhaps Taco or Hans understand the
> reson.  The test file that I committed does not have the mpprocset:=0,
> so it can be used to test for mpprocset handling in dvi mode.
>   
supp-,p ssays:

\def\dodohandleMPcolor#1 #2 #3setrgbcolor#4setrgbcolor*\\% old and maybe broken

so, it seems broken indeed; unless someone else solves it i may look at it on a cold winter night (if we ever get one here this year) 

Hans 


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