Re: Does Makempy still work?

[Cedric Mauclair <cedric.mauclair@gmail.com>]

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I forgot to mention that the spacing is correct though nothing appears
(file included).

-- Cédric



On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:53, Cedric Mauclair
<cedric.mauclair@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought this would come with TeXlive or ConTeXt. It solved the
> problem obviously, sorry for not trying it before calling for help.
> Also, I removed "beginfig...endfig;" from the tex file.
>
> However, now I can only see "e mc". No "=" nor "2". Is there a special
> version of pstoedit to install? I got mine from
> http://www.helga-glunz.homepage.t-online.de/pstoedit/.
>
> -- Cédric
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>> On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual
>>> but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files
>>> were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is
>>> it still usable/valid feature?
>>>
>>> I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp
>>> file and a tex file (which follows):
>>> \starttext
>>> \startMPcode
>>> input mp-grph ;
>>>
>>> beginfig(1) ;
>>>   graphictext
>>>     "$e=mc^2$"
>>>     scaled 10
>>>     dashed evenly
>>>     withdrawcolor .7blue
>>>     withfillcolor .7white
>>>     withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ;
>>> endfig ;
>>> \stopMPcode
>>> \stoptext
>>>
>>> It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by
>>> TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on
>>> a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go
>>> down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf",
>>> it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to
>>> convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun
>>> --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a
>>> literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be
>>> the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the
>>> way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest.
>>
>>
>> do you have pstoedit installed?
>>
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