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From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: missing metapost graphics
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:33:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe8d59da0910270733h4cb3d1b8oe97d5f98eb7d3084@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <670992c60910270728m753eab5ci2636173d6114c966@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Matěj  Týč <matej.tyc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/10/27 luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
>> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Matěj  Týč <matej.tyc@gmail.com> 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?
>>
>> \setupcolors[state=start]
>> \starttext
>> \startuseMPgraphic{dummy}
>>  fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ;
>> \stopuseMPgraphic
>> \useMPgraphic{dummy}
>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>> No problem here with latest minimals and
>> $>texexec test.tex
>> and
>> $>context  test.tex
>>
>
> Thank you for your reply,
> 1. I have completely missed that I have to run 'context' after
> texexec.
No no no -- sorry .
texexec is context mkii,
context is context mkiv,
and I'm using minimals, not textlive .

So I'm saying that there are no problems with
latest minimals, context mkii and with context mkiv too.

I suggest to you to install minimals asap,
see
wiki.contextgarden.net

-- 
luigi
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-27 14:33 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 [this message]
2009-10-27 14:45 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-10-27 18:01   ` Matěj Týč

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