From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60967 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Does Makempy still work? Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:45:03 +0200 Message-ID: <4C6A4C0F.10407@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282034918 13882 80.91.229.12 (17 Aug 2010 08:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:48:38 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 17 10:48:36 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OlHqV-0003sG-DQ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:48:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66661CA55E; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:48:34 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ixAHSfd-ebyN; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:48:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FB5CA559; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:48:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45A6CA559 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:48:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id nYiQuVpQGH5k for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:48:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (filter2-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62434CA246 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:48:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (sc-162.r-213-125-29.schoolconnect.nu [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id o7H8hWc7000942 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:43:32 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 6341-1713362 for multiple; Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:43:13 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.2 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0aCTkHwij - 98f3205081a5 - 20100817 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:60967 Archived-At: On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual > but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files > were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is > it still usable/valid feature? > > I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp > file and a tex file (which follows): > \starttext > \startMPcode > input mp-grph ; > > beginfig(1) ; > graphictext > "$e=mc^2$" > scaled 10 > dashed evenly > withdrawcolor .7blue > withfillcolor .7white > withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; > endfig ; > \stopMPcode > \stoptext > > It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by > TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on > a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go > down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", > it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to > convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun > --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a > literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be > the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the > way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest. do you have pstoedit installed? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________