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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
Subject: Re: Can is somehow inspect the intermediate results of an mtxrun?
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 10:32:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c7aa372-4451-446b-ed8f-2042271ca9cb@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C22C8CCF-6392-4C62-9E97-B209FF4F421B@rna.nl>

On 3/16/2020 10:16 AM, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> I have an mtxrun on a .tex file that has problems I need to debug.
> 
> The .tex file handles well, but whenMETAPOST has a go, it crashes. But 
> after the run, I cannot inspect what source was fed to METAPOST. Can I 
> inspect that (outside of what the log tells me)?
> 
> In this case, I know METAPOST is fed:
> 
> picture pic; x:=80.000; y:=200.000; w:=133.000; h:=53.000;pic := 
> ApplicationComponentLogo( w, h, typeString) shifted (x, -y); draw pic;
> 
> but the log says this is wrong:
> 
> metapost log    > >> unknown picture pic
> metapost log    > >> ApplicationComponentLogo
> metapost log    > ! Equation cannot be performed (unknown picture=numeric).
> metapost log    > <to be read again>
> metapost log    >                    (
> metapost log    > <*> ... h:=53.000;pic := ApplicationComponentLogo(
> metapost log    >                                                    w, 
> h, typeString) shifted...
> 
> SoI need to inspect what is fed to METAPOST to see why METAPOST thinks 
> pic or ApplicationComponentLogo have not been defined.
you can enable trackers, like

metapost.lua
metapost.runs
metapost.textexts
metapost.scripts
metapost.graphics
metapost.tracingall
metapost.terminal



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2020-03-16  9:16 Gerben Wierda
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