* static figures not working with the 2006.10.04 beta
@ 2006-10-05 5:05 Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-10-05 5:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
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From: Sanjoy Mahajan @ 2006-10-05 5:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
This file now produces a blank page except for the page number, perhaps
due to me messing up one of the upgrades (was trying an automatic
install to a TEXMFLOCAL directory but eventually gave up and went back
to ~/texmf/):
\starttext
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
draw fullcircle scaled 1in;
\stopstaticMPfigure
\usestaticMPfigure[fig]
\stoptext
[ConTeXt ver: 2006.10.04 09:35 MK II]
-Sanjoy
`A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.'
-- Bertrand de Jouvenal
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* Re: static figures not working with the 2006.10.04 beta
2006-10-05 5:05 static figures not working with the 2006.10.04 beta Sanjoy Mahajan
@ 2006-10-05 5:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-10-05 12:17 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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From: Aditya Mahajan @ 2006-10-05 5:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> This file now produces a blank page except for the page number, perhaps
> due to me messing up one of the upgrades (was trying an automatic
> install to a TEXMFLOCAL directory but eventually gave up and went back
> to ~/texmf/):
> \starttext
>
> \startstaticMPfigure{fig}
> draw fullcircle scaled 1in;
> \stopstaticMPfigure
>
> \usestaticMPfigure[fig]
> \stoptext
>
> [ConTeXt ver: 2006.10.04 09:35 MK II]
Works fine here on the same version.
Aditya
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* Re: static figures not working with the 2006.10.04 beta
2006-10-05 5:42 ` Aditya Mahajan
@ 2006-10-05 12:17 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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From: Sanjoy Mahajan @ 2006-10-05 12:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Works fine here on the same version.
Thanks for testing. Then it must have been something messed up in
trying a TEXMFLOCAL update. Oh, just found it. kpathsea wasn't
finding my cont-sys.tex (in ~/texmf/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex), so
these values were not set:
\runMPgraphicstrue
\runMPTEXgraphicstrue
Yet the cont-sys.tex file is there. Magic: When I deleted the ls-R
database, cont-sys.tex became visible. Obviously I don't understand
how kpathsea works. I thought a path element (in texmf.cnf) without a
!! in front meant kpathsea would search the filesystem as well as the
ls-R. So deleting the ls-R should not change "not found" to "found",
since it should have searched the disk anyway. Anyhow it's okay now.
Maybe the ls-R had a cont-sys.tex but in the wrong location, so it
didn't bother to search the disk.
TeX file searching is a god awful, fragile mess!
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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