From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27612 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: mp file not compiling Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:46:58 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00605030746q1a0d7502wf71361b78adb74c8@mail.gmail.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1146667670 13796 80.91.229.2 (3 May 2006 14:47:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 14:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed May 03 16:47:49 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FbIdB-0006XN-6r for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 May 2006 16:47:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EA79127A7; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:47:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26185-04; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:47:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D51D12792; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:47:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DF212792 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:47:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17442-08 for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:46:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 58B051277F for ; Wed, 3 May 2006 16:46:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so143391nfa for ; Wed, 03 May 2006 07:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.255.3 with SMTP id c3mr1472841nfi; Wed, 03 May 2006 07:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.162.20 with HTTP; Wed, 3 May 2006 07:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27612 Archived-At: On 5/3/06, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hi, > Is the mp support for btex...etex broken in the latest context > (ConTeXt ver: 2006.04.27 15:59) The following does not compile, > > \starttext > \startMPpage > label(btex This is a test etex, origin) ; > \stopMPpage > \stoptext > > I get an error > > ! Unable to make mpx file. > l.123 label(btex > This is a test etex > > Even an mp file > > beginfig(1) > label(btex hello world etex, origin) ; > endfig > end; > > with texexec --mptex gives the same error message. > > Can somebody confirm this? Or is something broken at my end? First of all: 1. in case you are using windows, update "texmfstart.exe" from cont-win.zip (you have to do that every now and then) 2. check that "texexec" is a synonym (for example texexec.bat under windows or an executable) for running "texmfstart [new]texexec" 3. Hans would say that you have to use "textext" instead of btex ... etex I doubt that this came with the latest distribution. The btex/etex and textext functionality is a bit broken anyway: sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. It depends a lot on the system that you use (MikTeX/tetex/standalone), on texexec that you run (texexec or newtexexec), how you run it (a batch/shell script with "texmfstart [new]texexec" or from linux/windows binaries that come with other distributions than the standalone one). It might also be that "write18" is set to off, it might be that some \runMP[TEX]graphic[s]true, \forceMP[TEX]graphic[s]true are set to false (chech your cont-usr.tex file). (I don't know which variable does what, but if you try to use an undefined one, TeX will complain anyway. Check the sources or try to switch on all the possible combinations of the commands mentioned above.) Since the topic is already open: Hans, if you find out what is going on with those input-ed strings, can you please also check what has to be done to enable "textext" under XeTeX? The more combinations I try, the more I break the system as the whole, so that I even had to reinstall everything. How does "runtexmpjob" know which TeX engine to use? Here the labels are processed with pdfTeX instead of being processed with XeTeX. I also have some problems with defining the proper font for those labels, but that's another story anyway. Thanks a lot, Mojca