\loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue

\loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue

[AlterEgo Qasars]

Good morning!

In my MetaPost figures (not embeded ones) I use ConTeXt as
TeX to compile btex ... etex stuff. This allows me to set fonts
simply with \setupbodyfonts macro. The problem is that this
approach slows the compilation down a lot.

In mpgraph.mp I found things like this:

graphictextformat := "context" ;
graphictextdirective "\global \loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue " ;                         
What does it? Can it make the compilation faster?

Many thanks for any answer. Forgive me please my curiosity.
M.K.

P.S. The ConTeXt is actualy great. Much better I ever hoped TeX 
can be.

Re: \loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue

[Nigel King]

> From: AlterEgo Qasars <quasar@econ.muni.cz>
> In my MetaPost figures (not embeded ones) I use ConTeXt as
> TeX to compile btex ... etex stuff.
Ah! How did you do that? I used to know how to do that with CMacTeX. Now I
use tetex and can't find how to do it.
-- 
Nigel

Re: \loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue

[AlterEgo Qasars]

Hi!

> > In my MetaPost figures (not embeded ones) I use ConTeXt as
> > TeX to compile btex ... etex stuff.
> Ah! How did you do that? I used to know how to do that with CMacTeX. Now I
> use tetex and can't find how to do it.

Do you mean how to make MetaPost to use ConTeXt instead of LaTeX or 
whatever? That's quite simple in tetex: Just set environment TEX to 
ConTeXt (I do it even in Makefiles). In Linux I do it this way:

export TEX=texexec --interface=cz
mpost file.mp

In the file.mp then I can type things like

verbatimtex \setupbodyfont[11pt] etex

Hm. Is it an answer to your question?

Many greetings and happy TeXing!

M.K.

Re: \loadfontdefinitionfileoncetrue

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:12 PM 9/3/2002 +0200, AlterEgo Qasars wrote:
>Hi!
>
> > > In my MetaPost figures (not embeded ones) I use ConTeXt as
> > > TeX to compile btex ... etex stuff.
> > Ah! How did you do that? I used to know how to do that with CMacTeX. Now I
> > use tetex and can't find how to do it.
>
>Do you mean how to make MetaPost to use ConTeXt instead of LaTeX or
>whatever? That's quite simple in tetex: Just set environment TEX to
>ConTeXt (I do it even in Makefiles). In Linux I do it this way:
>
>export TEX=texexec --interface=cz
>mpost file.mp
>
>In the file.mp then I can type things like
>
>verbatimtex \setupbodyfont[11pt] etex
>
>Hm. Is it an answer to your question?
>
>Many greetings and happy TeXing!

texexec --mptex somefile.mp

will do a reasonable job

Hans
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