Re: metafun tryout

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 02:24 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, David Petrou wrote:

>but when i run the texexec command what you suggested (texexec --make
>--alone en metafun), i get:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=221441].
>\docopyvalue ... \@EA \@EA \csname #1#3\endcsname
>                                                   \@EA {\csname 
> #2#3\endcsna...
>
>\next1 #1,->\docopyparameter {#1}
>                                  \doprocesscommaitem
><argument> ...ergrondraster ,\c!achtergrondkleur ,
>                                                   \c!uitlijnen ,\c!onder 
> ,\c...
>
>\doprocesscommalist ...aitem \gobbleoneargument #1
>                                                   ,]\relax \global 
> \advance ...
>
>\copylocalframed ...c!boven ,\c!strut ,\c!plaats ]
>                                                   \copyparameters 
> [#1\c!acht...
>
>\dododefinieerplaatsblok ...localframed [\??fl #1]
>                                                   \stelplaatsblokin [#1] 
> [\c...
>...
>l.1826
>----------------------------------------------------------------------

This is weird, and it looks like something is wrong with your system setup;

>so what i did instead was first run `texexec --make en nl' like the
>instructions suggest, and then run `texexec --make --alone metafun'.

ok (btw, a next tetex can generate metafun formats as well but i still have 
to patch texexec for that)

you can try

texconfig -e

or so, and uncomment the metafun line of it's there

>after moving the metafun.mem file, things work fine, except it takes
>REALLY long to process a simple one-line file.

ok, then indeed something's wrong with your system, did you run

mktexlsr

(generate file database)

>the docs say that things can take a long time if i made a mistake
>doing installation.  but i really tried hard to follow the
>instructions to the letter.  i'm appending below what a run looks
>like.  (i actually ran it twice in case there were caching effects.)

when the file database is generated (ls-r files) tex programs become much 
faster in file lookup (now the slow down comes from locating font files and so)

>also we're still left with the mystery of why i had to run `texexec
>--make --alone metafun' from the directory that holds metafun.mp.

has to do with the fact that until recently, tex installations did not 
generate metapost formats at the user's site

>another (smallish) mystery: the docs say to modify a file called
>`cont-sys.tex' to set certain defaults, etc.  but this file doesn't
>exist.  there are other files with different extensions.  perhaps a
>doc typo?

search for cont-sys.rme

Hans
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