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From: nicola <vitacolo@dimi.uniud.it>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: ! Unable to make mpx file.
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vitacolo-B56CE4.11382524032007@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <227536.60644.qm@web55306.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

In article <227536.60644.qm@web55306.mail.re4.yahoo.com>,
 Steve MC Han <hmc0907@yahoo.com> wrote:

>   I was wondering if you could give me some direction. I'm having this error 
>   message in doing metapost.
>    
>    
>   ! Unable to make mpx file.
> l.78 label.bot(btex
>                     $\hbox{\sf Rectangle}$ etex, (0,-.6u));
>    

I don't know if that can help, but I had a similar problem some time ago.
Try

tex --parse-first-line --interaction=nonstopmode mpxerr.tex

to see the error message. In my case, it turned out that the problem was 
format-related: latex.fmt had been written by pdfetex, but makempx was 
calling tex instead of pdfetex. The solution was to add the line:

TEX=pdfetex

to texmf.cnf. I was experiencing the problem with gwTeX, though: since I 
am using TeX Live 2007 I have no problem at all. For your reference, 
this is the thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.metapost/323/focus=330

Nicola

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-24 10:38 UTC|newest]

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2007-03-24  4:12 Steve MC Han
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