Re: context mkiv metafun

[Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz <scholz.m82@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:23:24 +0000, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote:

> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:43:35 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
>> On 5-2-2010 10:33, Martin 'golodhrim' Scholz wrote:
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> another problem I encountered while installing and testing context-
>>> minimals is that the context command is not willing in my case to
>>> autobuild the metafun graphics I included in the document. Would be
>>> nice if someone has an advice to me on to fix that, got it working
>>> under texexec by creating a cont-sys.tex and linking it to the
>>> directory where cont-sys.ori is located.
>> 
>> mkii or mkiv?
>> 
>> in mkii one can set the mp related directives in the cont-sys file, but
>> depending on the distribution one might also need to enable write 18 in
>> the config file (the used one can be found with)
>> 
>> texmfstart --edit kpse:texmf.cnf
>> mtxrun     --edit kpse:texmf.cnf
>> 
>> in mkiv things are done automatically as no external mp is used
> 
> The problematic output is:
> mplib           : initializing instance 'metafun' using format 'metafun'
> mplib           : making 'metafun.mp' into '/opt/context-minimals/tex/
> texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/ccfefc91ec3ed68af1aeed1f470fef4d/
formats/
> cont-en-metafun.mem'
> mplib           : problems with 'metafun.mp' from
> '/opt/context-minimals/
> tex/texmf-cache/luatex-cache/context/ccfefc91ec3ed68af1aeed1f470fef4d/
> formats/cont-en-metafun.mem'
> !pages          : flushing realpage 8, userpage 8
> 
> so what needs to be changed to get context mkiv running and creating the
> metapost output?

Ok problem solved... missing rights to write to /opt/context-minimals/tex/
texmf-cache/, just chmoded it 777 so it will be usable for graphic 
generation. Would be nice to include the possibilty to add in a standard 
way a personal texmf-cache, or is there a way to do so and I don't know 
about it?

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