Re: Inline MP

[pragma@wxs.nl]

>Hi,
>
>I have a problem about inline metapost definition.  Here's a
snippet:
>
>\def\MPlogo#1#2{%
>  \startreusableMPgraphic{lg#1#2}
>    color outside; outside = black;
>    color inside; inside = (1,.6,0);
>     ...
>    pickup pencircle scaled ll;
>    drawlogo(outside);
>    pickup pencircle scaled bl;
>    drawlogo(inside);
>  \stopreusableMPgraphic
>  \reuseMPgraphic{lg#1#2}
>}

This can be done more efficiently (and maybe even possible in
your version): 

\startuniqueMPgraphic{...}
  ...
\stopuniqueMPgraphic

....

\uniqueMPgraphic{...}

The new metafun manual will explain this [and other new tricks]
in more detail. 

>ll and bl are counted from #1 and #2.
>
>Everytime when I run texexec (the first line is %
interface=english
>output=pdftex paper=a4 pdf mptex), it stops at mpost with a * 
                        ^^^^^^^^^
                        not needed  

prompt saying
>'type end' or similar.  Of course it generates mpoutput.1 but 

You may want to use texexec from the latest distribution
although proper use of \starttext ... \stoptext should handle
this.

Hans