Re: Textext Question

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 26 May 2006, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:

> Le 26 mai à 18:10:43 Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl> écrit notamment:
>
>> Hi Jean Magnan,
>>
>> You should add  \useMPlibrary[txt] in order to get textext working.
>> Further define AX as a path only.
>> In the dummy-graphic say drawdblarrow AX.withcolor blue;
>>
>> After these changes I got the label as well as the double arrow.
> Hi,
> thanks to you and Renaud; I changed my file to this:
> ...................................
> \setupoutput[pdftex]
> \runMPgraphicstrue
> \useMPlibrary[txt]
>
> \setuppapersize[S6][S6]
> \setupcolors[state=start]
>
> \startMPinclusions
> numeric u; u=.8cm;
> path AX; AX=(10u,0)--(0,0)--(0,10u);
> \stopMPinclusions
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic{dummy}
> pickup pencircle scaled .8mm;
> drawdblarrow AX withcolor green;
> label.rt(textext("$3x^2+\pi$"), (5u,6u));
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \placefigure[left]{bla.bla}{\useMPgraphic{dummy}}
> \input dawkins
> \stoptext
> ...................................
>
> I get the same "unknown" in place of the label.
> On computer one (my everyday machine) context is provided by TeX-Live, and
> I made the same experiment with my computer two where context is installed
> via TeTeX.
> Same result on both!


This file compiles fine here (Windows XP + ConTeXt  ver: 
2006.05.17 10:08). I get proper text in the right location.


> I Think I have followed normal installation procedures (enabling 
> write18 etc.) So I'm confused Thanks for any more help!

Your first message said that you were running texexec.pl. Try 
switching to texexec.rb, i.e., invoke context with

texmfstart texexec <filename>

Aditya