I forgot to mention that the spacing is correct though nothing appears (file included).
-- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:53, Cedric Mauclair <cedric.maucl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought this would come with TeXlive or ConTeXt. It solved the > problem obviously, sorry for not trying it before calling for help. > Also, I removed "beginfig...endfig;" from the tex file. > > However, now I can only see "e mc". No "=" nor "2". Is there a special > version of pstoedit to install? I got mine from > http://www.helga-glunz.homepage.t-online.de/pstoedit/. > > -- Cédric > > > > On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: >> On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote: >>> >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual >>> but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files >>> were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is >>> it still usable/valid feature? >>> >>> I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp >>> file and a tex file (which follows): >>> \starttext >>> \startMPcode >>> input mp-grph ; >>> >>> beginfig(1) ; >>> graphictext >>> "$e=mc^2$" >>> scaled 10 >>> dashed evenly >>> withdrawcolor .7blue >>> withfillcolor .7white >>> withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; >>> endfig ; >>> \stopMPcode >>> \stoptext >>> >>> It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by >>> TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on >>> a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go >>> down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", >>> it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to >>> convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun >>> --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a >>> literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be >>> the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the >>> way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest. >> >> >> do you have pstoedit installed? >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE >> Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands >> tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com >> | www.pragma-pod.nl >> ----------------------------------------------------------------- >> >
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