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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: missing metapost graphics
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:45:59 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0910271044230.10467@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <670992c60910270502q17dc07b7j362f151397ca9df6@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Matěj  Týč wrote:

> Hello,
> when I try to use MP code in my file, I follow the instructions, but
> when I compile the file, there is no result whatsoever.
> Text parts of the document are OK, but there is no trace of the image
> that should be there.
>
> The following is taken directly from metafun manual (page 9) as the
> minimal ConTeXt example:
>
> \starttext
> \startuseMPgraphic{dummy}
> fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> \useMPgraphic{dummy}
> \stoptext
>
> Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler.
> Therefore I assume that something must be wrong.
> Could you comment on that?

This is because, by default, write18 is disabled in texlive. You can 
either enable it (see the wiki for details) or add

\runMPgraphicsfalse

on top of your file.

Aditya

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-27 12:02 Matěj  Týč
2009-10-27 12:58 ` luigi scarso
2009-10-27 14:28   ` Matěj  Týč
2009-10-27 14:33     ` luigi scarso
2009-10-27 14:45 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2009-10-27 18:01   ` Matěj Týč

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