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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \startMPrun ... \stopMPrun
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 12:10:04 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010241201200.11474@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC44D5C.5020606@wxs.nl>

On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 23-10-2010 3:02, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> On 10/23/2010 02:47 PM, Herbert Voss wrote:
>>> Is it possible to run this also under mkiv?
>>> Example is from the meafun manual.
>>> 
>>> \startMPrun
>>> input Grafik.mp;
>>> \stopMPrun
>>> \externalfigure[Grafik.1]
>>> \stoptext
>> 
>> It seems not.
>> 
>> Also, if I create Grafik.1 externally, it does not work either:
>
> \startMPrun
>  input graphic.mp ;
> \stopMPrun
>
> \starttext
>    \externalfigure[mprun.1]
> \stoptext
>
> seems to work on my machine
>
> The mprun mechanism is somewhat odd, and dates from the time that integration 
> was not that tight; it's mostly there so that we can process company logos 
> (all variants are defined in one file) runtime because i'm too lazy to 
> contexify these first mp works

\usemodule[filter]

\defineexternalfilter
 	[externalMP]
 	[filtercommand={texexec --mptex \externalfilterinput},
 	 read=no]

\starttext
\processexternalMP[graphic.mp]
\externalfigure[graphic.1]
\stoptext

Perhaps --mpgraphic is better than --mptex as it gives a pdf.

You can add continue=yes and the processing will be done if the file has 
changed.

Aditya

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-10-24 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-23 12:47 Herbert Voss
2010-10-23 13:02 ` Taco Hoekwater
2010-10-24 15:14   ` Hans Hagen
2010-10-24 16:10     ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]

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