Re: Possible bug in texexec

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 20:35 15/04/2004, you wrote:
>Dan Luecking has reported the following problem on c.t.t.:
>
>When mptopdf is used on a .mp file it preprocesses the file and
>the result (on my system it seems always to be named mptrace.tmp)
>is run through mpost.  This mptrace.tmp has new-lines after every
>semicolon (;).  This causes an error when the semicolon is part of
>a literal string, because mpost syntax requires such strings to be
>entirely on one line.

the reason for adding newlines after ;'s is that there have been problems 
with the metapost buffer length

i didn't test itm, but maybe

             s/(btex.*?)\;(.*?etex)/$1\@\@\@$2/gmois;
             s/(\".*?)\;(.*?\")/$1\@\@\@$2/gmois;             # add this line
             s/\;/\;\n/gmois;
             s/\n\n/\n/gmois;
             s/(btex.*?)\@\@\@(.*?etex)/$1\;$2/gmois;
             s/(\".*?)\@\@\@(.*?\")/$1\;$2/gmois;             # and this one

somewhere around line 2260 in texexec.pl will help

Hans