Re: mplib

["Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl@musensturm.de>]

Hallo Taco,

> > Everything I read below says there should be a 'plain.mem'
> > in the folder where you ran theat file in.  If there
> > really really isn't, then my only advise to you is to buy
> > a less thieving operating system, as it seems this one steals
> > your files before you can even have an admiring look at them.
> :-)

May be you are right that operating system steals files. We should do 
something against that.

Lutz Haseloff has send me his test (he too sees no 'mpost.mem'):
------------------------------------
TeXExec | processing document 'mplibtest.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file mplibtest.top
TeXExec | using randomseed 256
TeXExec | tex engine: luatex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
(./mplibtest.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2008.04.16 17:34 MKIV  fmt: 2008.4.18  int: 
english/english

language       : language en is active
system         : cont-new loaded
(C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems         : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex
(C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkiv
lua            : used config path - C:/tex/texmf-
local/web2c/texmf.cnf;C:/tex/texmf-
context/web2c/texmf.cnf;C:/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
lua            : used cache path - C:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-
cache/context/71ddae2d1527093aac63e0e1aa139641
) (C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-mtx.tex))
system         : cont-old loaded
(C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
loading        : Context Old Macros
)
system         : cont-fil loaded
(C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
)
system         : cont-sys loaded
(C:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex (C:/tex/texmf-
context/tex/context/base/type-tmf.tex) (C:/tex/texmf-
context/tex/context/base/type-siz.tex) (C:/tex/texmf-
context/tex/context/base/type-otf.tex))
bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
specials       : tex loaded
system         : mplibtest.top loaded
(./mplibtest.top
specials       : loading definition file tpd
(C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
specials       : loading definition file fdf
(C:/tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex (C:/tex/texmf-
context/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkiv))
specials       : fdf loaded
)
specials       : fdf loaded
) (./mplibtest.tuo) (./mplibtest.tuo)
systems        : begin file mplibtest at line 2
t={
 ["log"]="This is MetaPost, Version 1.003 (INIMP)  18 APR 2008 06:34 
(mpost.mp(plain.mp\
Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.99)",
 ["status"]=0,
 ["term"]="This is MetaPost, Version 1.003 (Cweb version 0.40) 
(INIMP)\
 (mpost.mp(plain.mp\
Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.99)",
}
nothing
t={
 ["log"]=" )\
Beginning to dump on file mpost.mem\
 (mem=mpost 8.4.18)\
at most 736 strings of total length 3629\
3326 memory locations dumped; current usage is 1021&2227\
501 symbolic tokens\
",
 ["status"]=0,
 ["term"]=" )\
Beginning to dump on file mpost.mem\
 (mem=mpost 8.4.18)\
at most 736 strings of total length 3629\
3326 memory locations dumped; current usage is 1021&2227\
501 symbolic tokens\
Transcript written on mpost.log.\
",
}
nothing
fonts          : resetting map file list
{C:/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-empty.map}
fonts          : using map file: original-base
{C:/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-base.map}
fonts          : using map file: lm-math
{C:/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-math.map}
fonts          : using map file: lm-rm
{C:/tex/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/lm/lm-rm.map}
fonts          : using map file: original-ams-base
{C:/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-base.map}
fonts          : using map file: original-ams-euler
{C:/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-ams-
euler.map}
fonts          : using map file: original-public-lm
{C:/tex/texmf-context/fonts/map/pdftex/context/original-public-
lm.map} [1.1]
systems        : end file mplibtest at line 38
 )<C:/tex/texmf/fonts/opentype/public/lm/lmroman12-regular.otf>
mkiv lua stats : used config path          - C:/tex/texmf-
local/web2c/texmf.cnf;C:/tex/texmf-
context/web2c/texmf.cnf;C:/tex/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
mkiv lua stats : used cache path           - C:/tex/texmf-
cache/luatex-cache/context/71ddae2d1527093aac63e0e1aa139641
mkiv lua stats : modules/dumps/instances   - 84/20/1
mkiv lua stats : input load time           - 0.031 seconds
mkiv lua stats : fonts load time           - 1.063 seconds
mkiv lua stats : xml load time             - 0.000 seconds, 
backreferences: 0, outer filtering time: 0.000
mkiv lua stats : mps conversion time       - 0.000 seconds
mkiv lua stats : node processing time      - 0.000 seconds (including 
kernel)
mkiv lua stats : kernel processing time    - 0.000 seconds
mkiv lua stats : attribute processing time - 0.016 seconds
mkiv lua stats : language load time        - 0.031 seconds, n=2
mkiv lua stats : graphics processing time  - 0.000 seconds, n=0 
(including tex)
mkiv lua stats : metapost processing time  - 0.000 seconds, loading: 
0.000 seconds, execution: 0.000 seconds, n: 0
mkiv lua stats : current memory usage      - 50679203 bytes
mkiv lua stats : cleaned up reserved nodes - 16 nodes, 8 lists of 100
mkiv lua stats : node memory usage         - 19 glue_spec, 2 dir
mkiv lua stats : loaded patterns           - en:en:pat:exc:2
mkiv lua stats : loaded fonts              - file:lmroman10-
bolditalic*default:otf file:lmroman10-italic*default:otf 
file:lmroman12-bold*default:otf file:lmroman12-italic*default:otf 
file:lmroman12-regular*default:otf file:lmroman7-bold*default:otf 
file:lmroman7-regular*default:otf file:lmroman9-bold*default:otf 
file:lmroman9-italic*default:otf file:lmroman9-regular*default:otf 
file:lmromancaps10-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-
bold*default:otf file:lmromanslant10-regular*default:otf 
file:lmromanslant12-regular*default:otf file:lmromanslant9-
regular*default:otf lmex10:tfm lmmi12:tfm lmmi7:tfm lmmi9:tfm 
lmsy10:tfm lmsy7:tfm lmsy9:tfm msam10:tfm msam7:tfm msbm10:tfm 
msbm7:tfm rm-lmr12:tfm rm-lmr7:tfm rm-lmr9:tfm
mkiv lua stats : runtime                   - 1.922 seconds, 1 
processed pages, 1 shipped pages, 0.520 pages/second


LuaTools | running command: luatex --fmt="C:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-
cache/context/71ddae2d1527093aac63e0e1aa139641/formats/cont-en" --
lua="C:/tex/texmf-cache/luatex-
cache/context/71ddae2d1527093aac63e0e1aa139641/formats/cont-en.luc" 
"mplibtest.tex" ""
LuaTools | 
LuaTools | runtime: 2.313 secondsTeXUtil | parsing file mplibtest.tui
TeXUtil | shortcuts : 0
TeXUtil | expansions: 0
TeXUtil | reductions: 0
TeXUtil | divisions : 0
TeXUtil | loaded files: 1
TeXUtil | temporary files: 0
TeXUtil | commands: 8
TeXUtil | programs: 0
TeXUtil | tuo file saved
TeXExec | renaming mplibtest.tua into mplibtest.tuc
TeXExec | runtime: 2.406

------------------------------------
 
> I tried the same with 'mpost'. This has the advantage that one has
> not to adapt 'plain.mp'.
> 
> But here too, there is no 'mpost.mem' and no 'mpost.log'.
> 
> I have included a test before and after mp:finish().
> 
> Can anybody with a minimal under windows run this example?
> -------------------------------
> \starttext
> % start low-level
> \startlua
> local function finder(name, mode, ftype)
>      if mode=="w" then
>          return name
>      else
>          return kpse.find_file(name,ftype)
>      end
> end
> mp = mplib.new ( {
>      hash_size = 100000,
>      main_memory = 2000000,
>      param_size = 100000,
>      find_file = finder,
>      ini_version = true
> } )
> if mp then
>      res = mp:execute("mpost")
>      tex.print("[" .. tostring(res.status) .. "]")
>      print(table.serialize(res))
>      if io.open("mpost.mem","r") then
>        print("found")
>      else
>        print("nothing")
>      end
>      res = mp:finish()
>      print(table.serialize(res))
>      if io.open("mpost.mem","r") then
>        print("found")
>      else
>        print("nothing")
>      end
> end
> \stoplua
> % stop low-level
> \stoptext
> -------------------------------
 
Grusz, Wolfgang
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