From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/5904 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: MetaFun on Mac OS X Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 10:42:14 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011023104049.0414d9b8@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396467 5592 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:07:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:07:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Original-To: Nigel King In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:5904 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:5904 At 09:02 PM 10/22/2001 +0100, Nigel King wrote: >All, >I have recently tried starting to use ConTeXt on Mac OS X. I have had >reasonable success. The problem that I have is in incorporating MetaPost >pictures. I have used the installer by Gerben Wierda, Gerben_Wierda@rna.nl >the release notes show; > >Versions in this installer: > pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.3.1) 3.14159-0.14h-released-20010417 > (with some patches) > TeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159 > (with some patches) > GS 6.01 > TeXUtil 7.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2000 >and quite a few additions, patches and updates. > >Running texexec with the following command does not give me test-mpgraph.1 >how ever many times I run the same command, or simply "texexec test" >prompt% texexec --automprun test >.... >mpost -progname=mpost -mem=metafun test-mpgraph >figures : figure test-mpgraph can not be found >.... > >prompt% mpost test-mpgraph gives me test-mpgraph.1 and then runing "texexec >test" again gives me the output file I want. > >The problem appears to be with -mem=metafun so I ran "texexec --make --alone >metafun" which gave me metafun.mem and I put it in >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/metafun.mem and >/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/metafun.mem >which was in a message from Hans Hagen. > >I just tried the local command >mpost -progname=mpost -mem=metafun test-mpgraph >and it worked >Now, why doesn't it work in texec? Any ideas the automp option is rather new, can you find the string "automp" in your texexec.pl? if you run mp 'runtime', you also have to enable write18 in texmf.cnf; see cont-sys.rme for other details. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------