From: "Morten Høgholm" <moho01ab@student.cbs.dk>
Subject: Possible bug in texexec
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 20:35:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <opr6igk5m2lz63g6@news.gmane.org> (raw)
Dan Luecking has reported the following problem on c.t.t.:
When mptopdf is used on a .mp file it preprocesses the file and
the result (on my system it seems always to be named mptrace.tmp)
is run through mpost. This mptrace.tmp has new-lines after every
semicolon (;). This causes an error when the semicolon is part of
a literal string, because mpost syntax requires such strings to be
entirely on one line.
I mentioned also texexec, because mptopdf seems to call texexec for
some purposes. I know too little perl to even know what to look for,
much less propose a patch.
This behavior has been confirmed under WinXP (fptex = TeXLive8) and
Mac OS X (tetex).
This particular problem can affect the latest mfpic (0.7, which I
maintain) if a user processes mfpic's .mp output file with mptopdf.
Users can work around the bug by modifying their copy of mfpic.tex,
changing the line
GBmsg "Bad mfpic installation; mfpic and grafbase %
to something like
GBmsg "Bad mfpic installation: mfpic and grafbase %
This change will be provided as patch to mfpic shortly.
--
Morten Høgholm
next reply other threads:[~2004-04-15 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-15 18:35 Morten Høgholm [this message]
2004-04-16 7:31 ` Hans Hagen
2004-04-19 7:53 ` Morten Høgholm
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