From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Command "show" in Metapost/Metafun
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:40:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B8CA7A.7000801@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0903120043130.3377@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Curious Learn wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to learn Metapost using Context. I tried a few examples
>> for drawing
>> things and they worked well. But the "show" command does not seem to
>> work. For
>> example, the code
>>
>> \startuseMPgraphic{GridDots}
>> u=1cm;
>> pickup pencircle scaled 8pt
>> for i = 0 upto 2:
>> for j = 0 upto 2: draw (i*u,j*u); endfor
>> endfor
>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>> \useMPgraphic{GridDots}
>>
>> from John Hobby's manual works great.
>>
>> However, the following code gives no output in the PDF file. Am I doing
>> something wrong?
>>
>> \startuseMPgraphic{LinearEq}
>> a+b = 2a - b = 3;
>> show a,b;
>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>> \useMPgraphic{LinearEq}
>>
>> I am using the following version from Texlive
>> ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.10.1 int: english/english
>
> The output of show goes to the terminal and the log file. Look for the
> values in filename-mpgraph.log.
\ctxlua{metapost.showlog = true}
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-12 8:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-12 0:53 Curious Learn
2009-03-12 4:44 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-12 8:40 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2009-03-12 15:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-12 23:11 ` Thanks. Two new questions: rotate and scale Curious Learn
2009-03-13 11:23 ` Albrecht Kauffmann
2009-03-13 11:59 ` Curious Learn
2009-03-13 12:09 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-13 13:39 ` Curious Learn
2009-03-13 13:44 ` Mikael Persson
2009-03-13 13:56 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-13 14:43 ` Curious Learn
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