Re: btex etex trouble

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:48 PM 7/12/2001 +0000, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote:
>I have some questions/remarks on inclusion of mp graphics with btex/etex.
>Sorry if I overlooked something in the docs, I'm rather exhausted now...
>
>Is there a way to tell context to write mpgraph.mp files suitable for plain
>tex, not for context? I got the following error message

% output=pdftex

\starttext

\startMPpage
   metapost code
\stopMPpage

\stoptext

This is nearly plain, and context understands most plain tex commands,

>by tex when called by mp. I managed to instruct mp to call context instead
>of plain tex, so it works now, but plain tex would be enough for me (simple
>text, cm fonts) and considerably faster. Inspection of mpgraph.mp showe

The latest version of context is (up to twice) as fast (depending on the 
task).

>graphictextformat := "context" ;
>graphictextdirective "\global \loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue " ;
>
>Can this be changed? Or something else? Or is it impossible / undesirable
>to use plain tex for some reasons I don't see?

Not so much impossible, more a lack of need and time.

It can be compiled using context and further processed by dvitomp, no
>problem, but where does \end{document} come from? Looks like latex.

This is generated by the metapost related tools: \end is also valid plain

Hans
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