From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/79221 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [NTG-Context] MetaPost capacity exceeded. Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:50 +0100 Message-ID: <50A4DE5E.8040908@wxs.nl> References: <20121115122708.26e6fa60@sole> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1352982125 4086 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2012 12:22:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:22:05 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 15 13:22:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TYyST-0006Fp-7c for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:22:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0994610263; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:22:03 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id auHHMmjOwTUM; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:22:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007A01023B; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:22:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB38C1023B for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:59 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Ta0V4NDlmtpG for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (filter3-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.154]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E065610239 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qAFCLvSE023025 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:57 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 2768-1713362 for multiple; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:21:48 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 In-Reply-To: <20121115122708.26e6fa60@sole> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=16; city=Zeewolde; latitude=52.3302; longitude=5.5364; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3302,5.5364&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 08InMlVKM - 5a4ca3bdb84b - 20121115 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.154 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:79221 Archived-At: On 11/15/2012 12:27 PM, Alan BRASLAU wrote: > > ! MetaPost capacity exceeded, sorry [expansion depth=10000]. this normally points to an error in mp code, not to instances > I have come across this error previously > with run-away \dorecurse loops > > I now have this message with a document that makes VERY heavy > use of MetaPost; I just have too many figures. > > Is there some way to "flush" the running instance of MetaPost, > that is to force MPlib to respawn or something like that? > (Of course, I would then have to be careful not to rely on the > reuse of any previous MP instances...) yes: \starttext \defineMPinstance [myfun-a] [format=metafun] \defineMPinstance [myfun-b] [format=metafun] \startMPdefinitions{myfun-a} color MyColor ; MyColor := (1,0,0) ; \stopMPdefinitions \startMPdefinitions{myfun-b} color MyColor ; MyColor := (0,1,0) ; \stopMPdefinitions \startuseMPgraphic{myfun-a::test-1} fill fullcircle scaled 1cm withcolor MyColor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{myfun-a::test-2} fill fullcircle scaled 1cm withcolor MyColor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{myfun-b::test-1} fill fullcircle scaled 1cm withcolor MyColor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \startuseMPgraphic{myfun-b::test-2} fill fullcircle scaled 1cm withcolor MyColor ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{myfun-a::test-1} \useMPgraphic{myfun-b::test-1} \useMPgraphic{myfun-a::test-2} \useMPgraphic{myfun-b::test-2} \stoptext however, during some cleanup stage something got lost ... so you need to fix this: \unprotect \def\meta_use_graphic#1#2% {\meta_begin_graphic_group{#1}% \doifsomething{#2}{\setupMPvariables[\currentMPgraphicname][#2]}% \getvalue{\??mpgraphic#1}% \meta_end_graphic_group} \protect there are few more places where \getvalue{\??mpgraphic ... needs a #1 (I'll fix it). So indeed you can have multiple independent instances. For instance we could have one for the chemical stuff which then cannot be messed up by other instances. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________