From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5070 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: problem with texexec and inline metapost Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 12:02:48 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010714115741.00aaaed0@public.uni-hamburg.de> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010703192446.00a94340@public.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395686 30981 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:54:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:54:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt mailing list Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010704084705.00fd56a0@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5070 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5070 At 08:47 04.07.2001 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: >At 08:01 PM 7/3/01 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: > >When running texexec over my input file containing a metapost graphic > >(first time, no mpgraph files exist), metapost is called after the first > >run, but then tex is not called again. Therefore, I have to call texexec > >twice to actually get the graphics in my dvi file. Accordingly, changes to > >the mp code become effective only after the second call to texexec (when > >creating pdf. - the dvi driver of course finds the updated file after the > >first run). I thought texexec would do this job for me, so perhaps there is > >a switch I didn't see yet? ... > >What latest? The ones i uploaded the last few days *do* an extra pass with >external mp graphics {based on checksum calculation] but only with the >undocumented --automprun, so > >texexec --automprun yourfile.tex Runtime graphics with \write18 are compiled each tex run, no matter if they were changed or not. A checksum calculation could speed up things significantly. Perhaps this is a feature worth thinking of, if it can be implemented with acceptable effort. Eckhart