From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/33942 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: nicola Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ! Unable to make mpx file. Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:26 +0100 Organization: --- Message-ID: References: <227536.60644.qm@web55306.mail.re4.yahoo.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174732732 16366 80.91.229.12 (24 Mar 2007 10:38:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:38:52 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Mar 24 11:38:44 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HV3dz-0004F6-1M for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2936202C8; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18750-01; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5381E202C3; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15799202C3 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17731-05-3 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C43202C1 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:30 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HV3dl-0004yn-Cj for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:29 +0100 Original-Received: from host40-5.pool8175.interbusiness.it ([81.75.5.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:29 +0100 Original-Received: from vitacolo by host40-5.pool8175.interbusiness.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:38:29 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host40-5.pool8175.interbusiness.it User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.2 (PPC Mac OS X) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:33942 Archived-At: In article <227536.60644.qm@web55306.mail.re4.yahoo.com>, Steve MC Han 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