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From: Gavin <gavinpublic@comcast.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: \startstaticMPfigure not producing .pdf or .mp.md5 files
Date: Sun, 30 May 2021 08:36:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <F88E95D7-6AAF-4B8C-B2BC-3973F01D64F3@comcast.net> (raw)

Hello colleagues,

I’m writing a physics textbook with lots of figures, some quite complex. I’ve been using TikZ, but I’m experimenting with MetaPost. Consulting the ConTeXt wiki, I found that \startstaticMPfigure and friends are designed exactly for this sort of use. However, I’m not seeing the documented behavior. In particular, I’m not seeing .pdf and .mp.md5 files being produced. Perhaps I don’t know where to look. I thought they would be in the same directory as the document.

The example from the wiki is this:

\startstaticMPfigure{center}
 draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ;
 dotlabel.bot(textext("(0,0)"),origin) ;
\stopstaticMPfigure

\startstaticMPfigure{radius}
 draw fullcircle scaled 2cm ;
 drawarrow (0,0)--(1cm,0) ;
 label.bot(textext("$r$"),(5mm,0)) ;
\stopstaticMPfigure

\starttext
Circle centered \usestaticMPfigure[center][width=1cm] at origin with radius
\usestaticMPfigure[radius][width=1cm] $r=1\,\text{cm}$.
\stoptext

I would expect this to produce files center.pdf, radius.pdf, center.mp.md5, radius.md.mp5, and perhaps other logs, etc. I don’t see them anywhere.

I’m running on MacOS with a current LMTX from TeXShop with the script:

#!/bin/bash
export PATH=/Users/Gavin/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin:$PATH
~/context-osx-64/tex/texmf-osx-64/bin/mtxrun --autogenerate --script context --directives="system.showerror" --autopdf "$1”

I’ve also tried MkIV and the TeXLive 2021 versions with the same results.

I don’t actually need the separate pdf, but I do want the diagrams to be redrawn only when something has changed. Without a .mp.md5, I’m not sure what to expect.

If the behavior has changed, I can update the wiki. I’m also curious about why \staticMPfigure is not mentioned in the MetaFun manual.

Thanks
Gavin
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             reply	other threads:[~2021-05-30 14:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-30 14:36 Gavin [this message]
2021-05-30 15:03 ` Jairo A. del Rio
2021-05-30 17:46   ` Gavin

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