From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4568 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hartmut Henkel Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Quoting in mptopdf.pl Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:23:27 +0200 (CEST) Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395223 26799 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:47:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:47:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt mailing list Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4568 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4568 Hi, I use mptopdf.pl for conversion of MetaPost output into PDF under debian 2.2 r2 Linux. I renamed mptopdf.pl into mptopdf, put it into directory /usr/local/bin, and made it executable (chmod ugo+rx). It works nicely, but for this I had to change the quoting in the line with the pdftex call into: { system ("pdftex \\\&mptopdf \\\\relax $file") ; Why are these additional backslashes for quoting necessary? Thank you very much for your help. Best Regards Hartmut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr.-Ing. Hartmut Henkel In den Auwiesen 6 D-68723 Oftersheim Germany E-Mail: hartmut_henkel@gmx.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------