From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14051 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Gundlach Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: page backgrounds Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:32:18 +0100 Organization: chaos Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069022413 1605 80.91.224.253 (16 Nov 2003 22:40:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:40:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sun Nov 16 23:40:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALVYx-0005QX-00 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:40:11 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC19A10B34; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:40:05 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.186]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC04110B04 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:32:48 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from [212.227.126.162] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng0.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ALVRo-0000Qh-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:32:48 +0100 Original-Received: from [62.72.92.64] (helo=levana) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1ALVRo-0002s8-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:32:48 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=schnee.local.) by levana with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ALVRJ-0000UJ-00 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:32:17 +0100 Original-Received: from schnee.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by schnee.local. (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hAGMWJeT028424 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:32:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (from pg@localhost) by schnee.local (8.12.9/8.12.2/Submit) id hAGMWJx4028423; Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:32:19 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: schnee.local: pg set sender to patrick@gundla.ch using -f Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Lieblings-Musik: the_capricorns In-Reply-To: (Thomas A. Schmitz's message of "Sat, 15 Nov 2003 22:36:04 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14051 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14051 Hello Thomas, > These are my first forays into the unknown territories of Metapost. You'll enjoy your journey once you get MP working. > The following code is copied verbatim from the matafun-manual: [...] > But I don't see anything. The log shows that metapost calculated a > background, but I don't see anything. What am I doing wrong? Your complete log might be interesting. Did you enable the write18 feature in texmf.cnf (not necessary, but nice since it lets tex generate the MP graphics on the fly)? Did you put any text between \starttext and \stoptext? Do you have \protectbufferstrue in cont-sys.tex? Patrick