Re: Is the chart module broken?

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

> 2010/11/19 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
>
>> On 19-11-2010 8:43, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
>>
>>  The only things I see that could mean something are:
>>>     systems         : no file 'cont-sys.tex', using 'cont-sys.rme' instead
>>>
>>
>> this is harmless but you can copy the file cont-sys.rme to cont-sys.tex and
>> tweak its content
>
>
> I did not think so, but better safe as sorry.
>
>
>
>     pdfTeX warning: pdftex: no GlyphToUnicode entry has been inserted yet!
>>
>> But I do not know if that is a problem.
>>
>> The pfd is made with:
>>     texexec --automp flowchart
>>
>> Without the --automp I get a message about mpost.
>>
>
> Is mpost run or not? Your code looks ok and generates an image here, so it
>> looks like mpost is not run on your system.
>>
>
> I tried to make it after running 'texexec --make metafun'.
> It is still not run. I get:
> systems         : begin file flowchart at line 3
> (./flowchart-flw-1.tmp) (./flowchart-flw-1.tmp) (./flowchart-flw-1.tmp)sh:
> mpost: opdracht niet gevonden
>
> locate mpost gives:
> /home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf-linux/bin/mpost
> /home/cecil/ConTeXt/tex/texmf/metapost/base/mpost.mp
> /usr/lib/texmf/doc/man/man1/mpost.man1.pdf
> /usr/share/doc/packages/libSDL-devel/html/sdlsempost.html
> /usr/share/pstoedit/mpost.fmp

You pdftex is from texlive, but you do not have a metapost executable from 
texlive. Either install metapost in texlive or use minimals (You already 
seem to have the minimals installed. You need to run "source 
~/ConTeXt/tex/setuptex" to add the minimals' binaries to the path).

Aditya
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