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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	"Rudd, Kevin" <kevin@lps.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: MP boxes: boxjoin not recognized?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 16:26:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3ea0fc8-ed7d-f15e-4568-d6cc20d1bcbf@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <879D797B-E8ED-4FA6-AC78-A1AFADB6717D@lps.umd.edu>

On 7/21/2021 12:29 PM, Rudd, Kevin wrote:
> Hi---
> 
> All of my figures that use MP boxes are now failing. It looks like 
> "boxjoin" (from the MP "boxes" macros) is not being recognized. Also, 
> apparently unrelated, I wonder if the comparison in "boxes.mp" is 
> correct as it appears that lmtx loads "mp-xbox.mpiv" instead of 
> "mp-xbox.mpxl". Here is some log output and a (mostly) MWE.

Indeed, I made that one an mp-* because it removes a dependency. The 
only real depency left now in a context install is a bunch of fonts.

> Thanks for any suggestions,

i'll add

def boxjoin(text t) =
     def boxes_prevbox = _ enddef;
     def boxes_dojoin(suffix a,b) = t enddef;
enddef;

for now you can just add it


>                  % boxes.mp: scantokens("input mp-xbox.mp" & (if 
> metapostversion > 2 : "xl" else : "iv" fi)) ;
>                  %           => loads mp-xbox.mpiv in lmtx rather than 
> mp-xbox.mpxl as i would have expected

hm, indeed, fixed; thanks for noticing,

Hans



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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-21 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 10:29 Rudd, Kevin
2021-07-21 14:26 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2021-07-23  4:38   ` Aditya Mahajan
2021-07-23  7:14     ` Hans Hagen

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