metapost textext?

metapost textext?

[Hans van der Meer]

Panic using metapost in context.
This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion 
{1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for  
textext calls!

\starttext
\startuseMPgraphic{one}
	draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
	label (textext("label"), (10,25));
\stopuseMPgraphic
\useMPgraphic{one}
\stoptext

But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
What happened. This is disastrous.

yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer

Re: metapost textext?

[Hans Hagen]

Hans van der Meer wrote:

> Panic using metapost in context.
> This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion 
> {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for  
> textext calls!
>
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic{one}
>     draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
>     label (textext("label"), (10,25));
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> \useMPgraphic{one}
> \stoptext
>
> But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
> What happened. This is disastrous.

this normally points to an error in mp processing (unknown is the fall 
back text), not so much to something wrong with context (i hope)

it runs ok here; how does it runs at other machines?

(this intermediate mp runnig tex is a kind of messy mp feature and 
errors are hard to trace)

Hans

Re: metapost textext?

[Peter Rolf]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hans van der Meer wrote:
> 
>> Panic using metapost in context.
>> This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion
>> {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for 
>> textext calls!
>>
>> \starttext
>> \startuseMPgraphic{one}
>>     draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
>>     label (textext("label"), (10,25));
>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>> \useMPgraphic{one}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
>> What happened. This is disastrous.
> 
> this normally points to an error in mp processing (unknown is the fall
> back text), not so much to something wrong with context (i hope)
> 
> it runs ok here; how does it runs at other machines?
>
no problem here (using latest version)

Peter

> (this intermediate mp runnig tex is a kind of messy mp feature and
> errors are hard to trace)
> 
> Hans
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Re: metapost textext?

[Taco Hoekwater]

Peter Rolf wrote:
> Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>>Hans van der Meer wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Panic using metapost in context.
>>>This used to work. I did a file that previously (\thisisutilityversion
>>>{1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere for 
>>>textext calls!
>>>
>>>\starttext
>>>\startuseMPgraphic{one}
>>>    draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
>>>    label (textext("label"), (10,25));
>>>\stopuseMPgraphic
>>>\useMPgraphic{one}
>>>\stoptext
>>>
>>>But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
>>>What happened. This is disastrous.
>>
>>this normally points to an error in mp processing (unknown is the fall
>>back text), not so much to something wrong with context (i hope)
>>
>>it runs ok here; how does it runs at other machines?
>>
> 
> no problem here (using latest version)
> 

Runs without problems here as well. The most likely cause of problems
in this subsystem nowadays is a
   "format was written by (pdf)(e)tex"
error message from a (pdf)(e)tex executable. Unfortunately, I also
find it hard to trace this stuff. It may help to run the example
in an isolated directory and zip&mail everything in the directory
afterwards. I can at least have a look, but cannot give guarantees.

Taco

Re: metapost textext?

[David Arnold]

Runs OK here as well.

Got a little graphic with the word "label" in it.

chapter3 $ texexec --version

TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

                texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
                texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
                    tex : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
                context : ver: 2005.12.01
                cont-en : ver: 2005.12.01  fmt: 2005.12.2  mes: english
                cont-nl : ver: 2005.12.01  fmt: 2005.12.2  mes: dutch

         total run time : 2 seconds


On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:13 AM, Hans van der Meer wrote:

> Panic using metapost in context.
> This used to work. I did a file that previously  
> (\thisisutilityversion{1998.12.20}) had good output but now has  
> "unknown" everywhere for textext calls!
>
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic{one}
> 	draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
> 	label (textext("label"), (10,25));
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> \useMPgraphic{one}
> \stoptext
>
> But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
> What happened. This is disastrous.
>
> yours sincerely,
> dr. H. van der Meer
>
>
>
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Re: metapost textext?

[Willi Egger]

Hi,

this code compiles without problems on a Windows-XP machine with:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5)
ConTeXt  ver: 2005.11.30  fmt: 2005.12.19  int: english  mes: english

Willi

Hans Hagen wrote:

> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>
>> Panic using metapost in context.
>> This used to work. I did a file that previously 
>> (\thisisutilityversion {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has 
>> "unknown" everywhere for  textext calls!
>>
>> \starttext
>> \startuseMPgraphic{one}
>>     draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)--(0,0);
>>     label (textext("label"), (10,25));
>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>> \useMPgraphic{one}
>> \stoptext
>>
>> But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
>> What happened. This is disastrous.
>
>
> this normally points to an error in mp processing (unknown is the fall 
> back text), not so much to something wrong with context (i hope)
>
> it runs ok here; how does it runs at other machines?
>
> (this intermediate mp runnig tex is a kind of messy mp feature and 
> errors are hard to trace)
>
> Hans
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> ntg-context mailing list
> ntg-context@ntg.nl
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Re: metapost textext?

[Hans van der Meer]

I have another piece of information on my previous posting.
When I take the mpgraph mp-input for metapost produced by the ConTeXt  
run I see:

(1) running "system(mpost  -progname=mpost -mem=metafun standalone2- 
mpgraph)...executed." as the log shows gives the wrong metafont  
output. I also ran mpost with those parameters standalone on that mp- 
file and got the same bad result.

(2) running texexec --mptex on the file gives the correct result.

Would this help locating the problem?
My mpost is according to mpout.log "This is MetaPost, Version 0.901  
(Web2C 7.5.3) (mem=mpost 2005.11.12)".

yours sincerely,
dr. H. van der Meer



On Dec 21, 2005, at 18:24, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Peter Rolf wrote:
>> Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Panic using metapost in context.
>>>> This used to work. I did a file that previously  
>>>> (\thisisutilityversion
>>>> {1998.12.20}) had good output but now has "unknown" everywhere  
>>>> for textext calls!
>>>>
>>>> \starttext
>>>> \startuseMPgraphic{one}
>>>>    draw (0,0)--(100,0)--(100,50)--(50,50)--(50,100)--(0,100)-- 
>>>> (0,0);
>>>>    label (textext("label"), (10,25));
>>>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>>>> \useMPgraphic{one}
>>>> \stoptext
>>>>
>>>> But now I see "unknown" as the text typeset instead of "label"!
>>>> What happened. This is disastrous.
>>>
>>> this normally points to an error in mp processing (unknown is the  
>>> fall
>>> back text), not so much to something wrong with context (i hope)
>>>
>>> it runs ok here; how does it runs at other machines?
>>>
>> no problem here (using latest version)
>
> Runs without problems here as well. The most likely cause of problems
> in this subsystem nowadays is a
>   "format was written by (pdf)(e)tex"
> error message from a (pdf)(e)tex executable. Unfortunately, I also
> find it hard to trace this stuff. It may help to run the example
> in an isolated directory and zip&mail everything in the directory
> afterwards. I can at least have a look, but cannot give guarantees.
>
> Taco
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