From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48232 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Command "show" in Metapost/Metafun Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:44:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236833170 974 80.91.229.12 (12 Mar 2009 04:46:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:46:10 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 12 05:47:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LhcpK-0001Ei-73 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:47:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF391FB4E; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:46:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12563-04; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:45:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AB391FA41; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:45:29 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 724B21FA41 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:45:27 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10247-06-3 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:45:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94AB1FA2B for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:45:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n2C4jIcW013865 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:45:19 +0100 Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-71-234-195-113.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [71.234.195.113]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 49B8935C.F26F4.9971 ; 12 Mar 2009 00:45:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.82; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 192250210 - b1867d2de234 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:48232 Archived-At: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Curious Learn wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to learn Metapost using Context. I tried a few examples for drawing > things and they worked well. But the "show" command does not seem to work. For > example, the code > > \startuseMPgraphic{GridDots} > u=1cm; > pickup pencircle scaled 8pt > for i = 0 upto 2: > for j = 0 upto 2: draw (i*u,j*u); endfor > endfor > \stopuseMPgraphic > \useMPgraphic{GridDots} > > from John Hobby's manual works great. > > However, the following code gives no output in the PDF file. Am I doing > something wrong? > > \startuseMPgraphic{LinearEq} > a+b = 2a - b = 3; > show a,b; > \stopuseMPgraphic > \useMPgraphic{LinearEq} > > I am using the following version from Texlive > ConTeXt ver: 2008.05.21 15:21 MKII fmt: 2008.10.1 int: english/english The output of show goes to the terminal and the log file. Look for the values in filename-mpgraph.log. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________