I'm using the dual extension .ctx.tex as a way of telling my editor
(emacs) to invoke the context mode of AUCTeX when I load a file with
that extension.
Auctex automatically recognizes plain tex vs latex vs context files by
the first few lines in the file.
The main time when that method
I cannot figure out the error in the following nested itemization with a
reference. Is it a bug or am I overlooking something? Here is the
smallest example I could make. Strangely, if I change the
startproblemlist to startitemize and stopproblemlist to stopitemize, all
is well.
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
itemgroups cannot be miced
Though there's no problem without those references in [brackets], so the
mixing works most of the time anyway.
this catches it
Thanks! With two small changes, your definition makes the mixing work
even when using references.
Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I usually prefer
Note that \in Step[fire] is optional for experienced chefs.
This way, if you enable interaction, Step 3 will become a link, rather
than just 3.
An example showing a third alternative. This alternative is useful
if you use that
Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you using an old version of ConTeXt?
Version 2008.01.28 from Norbert's latest packages for Debian unstable.
I can upgrade to 2008.04.27 by hand, but my TeX life has become so
sipmle since using Norbert's packages that I may let laziness triumph.
From this minimal example, the resulting PDF file opens with chapter and
section bookmarks. But it should open with just chapter bookmarks due
to the second argument in this line:
\placebookmarks
[chapter,section]
[chapter]
The problem is mentioned on the wiki
Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
\placebookmarks
[chapter,section]
[chapter]
\placebookmarks
[chapter,section]
That's true meaning that my minimal example was too minimal!
Giving no argument works here is that the default, i.e. with no second
argument to
Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
\placebookmarks
[chapter,section,subsection]
[chapter,section]
should work but it shows all three levels.
What do you expect, you open the chater *and* the section branches.
Thanks, now I understand what the second argument means: It's not
From:Thomas Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have figured out how to download the t-amsl module and can
successfully invoke it as long as the t-amsl.tex file is in the same
folder as my document files. But how do I install it permanently so
that I can invoke it in all my documents?
I don't know
how do I run mktexlsr? from the OS X Terminal
Since you're using tetex, 'mktexlsr' should be in the PATH already (on
my linux system it's in /usr/bin, one of the very standard components
of PATH), so 'mktexlsr' from the Terminal should work.
If that doesn't work, what's the output of 'printenv
From:Thomas Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\setuppapersize[letter]
You want
\setuppapersize[letter][letter]
otherwise you get letter sized pages imposed on A4 paper (not widely
available in Pomona probably!) because the default value for the
second argument is A4. You might get lucky and end up
In regard to the remark I saw posted about monster eps files
That was from me. The size was one issue and probably, as you say,
disappears in the size of the final pdf file (I didn't test it
extensively but I think that happened).
However, a related issue to the size is that ConTeXt parses the
are the same, i.e. the \cs ends at a non-letter and the space is
gobbled
Can someone give me an example where this happens in either latex or
tex?
Not sure if this example is what you're looking for, but a typical
case in TeX or LaTeX is:
\TeX has a programming language that only a
file:line:error style messages enabled.
i've never seen that one
It's very useful. Here's a sample run of pdftex with that option,
which makes the error output match the format that most language
compilers use (e.g. gcc).
So you can run tex in an Emacs *compilation* buffer (with M-x
Hans writes:
fyi: there is a new tufte book (don't have it yet but i'm told that it's
nice too)
It's _Beautiful Evidence_ (2006) and it is beautiful. I think it was
typeset in Quark. A few pages from the book, as well some of Tufte's
updates on the book's production, are here:
Can TeX/LaTeX/ConTexT-based typesetting can look as good? Perhaps!
I'm curious: What is preventing ConTeXt in particular from looking
this good? What is the basis of your Perhaps!? What's missing?
Mostly my lack of skill with ConTeXt, but the experts could say for
sure. A likely trouble
Here's what I had to do to update to the latest Context (2006.07.14) on
Ubuntu 6.06 (i.e. 2006.06) distribution of Linux. It comes with tetex
3.0. The commands below assume a working Context already installed in
your ~/texmf, and the commands use bash syntax, which is almost like
'sh' but has
http://www.nieuwarchief.nl/serie5/index.php
Thanks, lots of elegant layouts there, and enjoyable mathematics!
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2006.6.27 int: english mes: english
language: language en is active
protectionstate 0
system : cont-new loaded
(/home/ralf/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.14 \newcontextversion
(Sorry for the strange conversation, but my e-mail appears with about
20 minutes delay on the list. And Hans is faster.)
I've noticed this too, after I found many examples where Hans or Taco
would answer questions that I didn't even know people had! It seems
that some emails (based on From:
1. (optional cleanup) Delete the old Context-installed files in
~/texmf/. This step is optional, but I do it so that I can track the
I am not so sure that step is optional. Because if the preinstalled
version had a cont-sys.tex or cont-usr.tex, then this step may be
required to make
Whereas the $@ form would produce
texmfstart.rb --option=hi there
This second form is what you want, no?
Ah, I see. (is that bash-only?)
It was hard to find a machine not running bash, a measure of the
success of free software. But I eventually found a nearby Solaris
machine
($1$2 ... )
coincidentaly i read this in the bash manual today but i was puzzled by
it not being
($1 $2 ... ) # separated by spaces
Sorry, my typo.
i didn't follow this thread but i assume that at some point the
outcome will be summarized; keep in mind that patched need to work
It was hard to find a machine not running bash, a measure of the
success of free software. But I eventually found a nearby Solaris
more a measure of the lack of diversity ... imagine everyone living a
house of the same design, driving the same car, etc etc
Or instead walking,
I have to find (highlight) footnotes with the entire footnote being
marked/highlighted. The problems are the (potentially) nested pairs
of curled brackets (like for \index, \emphasize etc etc) ...
I'm not sure what you mean by marking or highlighting the footnote.
Do you mean in the printed
[where is the amsl module]
$ kpsewhere t-amsl
/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/context/maths/t-amsl.tex
and that's the only one ('locate amsl.tex' confirms it). The
/usr/share context tree is the ancient version that comes with tetex
3.0 (Context 2005.01.31 I think). My ~/texmf tree has the newer
I'm considering switching from my units macros to the units module. In
doing that I'm trying \spaceddimensionstrue (found in the m-units.tex
source), which is the most common convention in physics tables and
books, rather than using \Times to separate quantities with a dot.
But it seems not to
I suppose it's a font problem, but where can I find these fonts, and
how should I install them ?
Right, it's the latin-modern font problem. If you're using Debian
testing/unstable, you can probably just do
apt-get install lmodern
to install lmodern v1.00. Ubuntu gives you v0.92, which isn't
kpsewhich: option `--expand-var' requires an argument
See the Ubuntu installation thread a couple weeks ago (search for
TEXMFLOCAL and Ubuntu). The problem is that TEXMFLOCAL isn't being
evaluated properly due to quoting differences between Unix and Windows
syntax (with ctxtools using the
The text after section headings is normally not indented, even if
\setupindenting[yes] is given -- which looks good and was a pain to get
right in my plain TeX days. But the don't indent that code seems to
get confused if before= and after= values are given in the heading
setup.
Below is a
From:Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The current release has version 2006.08.04
After updating I see a slightly earlier date:
CtxTools | context version: 2006.08.02 23:31
* some identation problems removed
I just tested yesterday's example of paragraph indention combined with
before=
I think that the command is \noindentation.
Thanks, that does the trick.
For future ConTeXt releases, should the no-indentation be handled
automatically by \section (e.g. it would wrap the section including
the before and after material in an environment with \parindent=0pt)?
Or is it better to
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but this is the minimal example I
could make. The environment file ne.tex contains
\startenvironment ne
\setupindenting[medium,yes]
\stopenvironment
And the test file is
\environment ne
\starttext
\placeformula\startformula
x = 10
\stopformula
\stoptext
And also no PDF, because \stopenvironment executes \endinput :-)
Whoops! I'd been testing so many variants in order to find the
minimal file and had outsourced the checking to 'grep hbox' (rather
than reading through the texexec output by hand). So I didn't even
notice the lack of a PDF file.
Hans wrote:
Is that better than using \noindentation (suggested by the other
Mahajan)? The one problem with it that I found is an extra space in
indentation for the first paragraph. I guess it's because there's a
space in horizontal mode somewhere that isn't being ignored (as it
would
The space is created from the linefeed at the end of the line
\section{First}
but I do not quite see why it is not ignored.
Right in front of my nose (I was looking in the source files for a
line that needed a % at the end). Is it because tex is still in
horizontal mode thanks to the
The overfull box is caused by a strut. It is easily removed by
\def\verticalstrut{\normalvbox {\hsize \zeropoint \noindent\strut }}
Easily removed, but not so easily found! Thanks, that fixes it.
Looking at the standard definition of \verticalstrut (in
core-spa.tex):
\def\verticalstrut
Taco wrote:
Right in front of my nose (I was looking in the source files for a
line that needed a % at the end). Is it because tex is still in
horizontal mode thanks to the \dontleavehmode, and also because spaces
after } are not ignored automatically?
The answer is yes (the new
anyway, with a bit of delay ... new zips uploaded (unchecked -)
I just tested Aditya's example
\starttext
\placeformula \startformula a = b \stopformula
\stoptext
and found that it worked fine (with 2006.08.08 21:51), so I guessed
that some fast updating happened! I've added that example to
In any case, I have probably misunderstood the thread. Has a summary
been posted somewhere that I might consult?
I need to summarize all the Linux installation methods on the Wiki,
once I get it all straight in my head. Right now in reality and in my
head it's a nightmare because of all the
Hans,
The latest ctxtools.rb has:
def locatedlocaltree
tree = `kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMFLOCAL`.chomp rescue
nil
unless tree FileTest.directory?(tree) then
tree = `kpsewhich --expand-path $TEXMF`.chomp rescue
nil
TDS is the Tex Directory Structure, designed so that the various tex
distributions use the same file structure.
See http://www.tug.org/tds/
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
I have just installed the latest version of m-bib. Where I had before a
citation alpher and bethe with \cite[author] for a bib-item with two
authors I get only the first now. What has to be changed in order to get
two authors in the text while for more than two there will be alpher et
No, it is all my fault, sorry. For a quick fix, please add this
\setupcite[authoryears][authoretallimit=2]
to your document. I will upload a fixed version asap.
Thanks, that fixes it.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell,
Try 'authoryear' or 'authoryears' if you want to have both, the author
and the year.
Could you try
\setupcite[authoryears][authoretallimit=2]
\setupcite[authoryear][authoretallimit=2]
maybe it works. (I still have an older ConTeXt and no time to test.)
Thanks, the
I still can't figure this problem one out, from a few months ago, and it
happens with a recent ConTeXt (2006.08.08 21:51). The figure searching
code gets confused if a file of the same basename (but in a different
directory) has already been loaded. Here is a minimal min.tex to show
what I mean:
Taco sez:
Sanjoy sez:
The figure searching code gets confused if a file of the same
basename (but in a different directory) has already been loaded.
I remember I ran into that as well (more than a year ago) and I
ended up renaming my figures to figure1-1.pdf etc. It actually
turned out to
\starttext
A~B
\stoptext
It works fine here with vanilla ConTeXt ver 2006.08.08 21:51, texexec
6.2.0, tetex 3.0 on Ubuntu (generating pdf).
For me, this makes context hang!!
Where does it hang? Running tex or pdftex, or in texexec?
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of
I'm learning page rearrangements and cannot figure out why the following
small example doesn't work (it's similar to those in the cont-eni.pdf
manual, fig 3.22). Here it produces a two-page, blank PDF file when I
run 'texexec --arrange p2'
[ConTeXt ver: 2006.08.08 21:51 fmt: 2006.8.8 int: english
Taco wrote:
Don't you need:
\setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4,landscape]
\setuparranging[2DOWN,rotated]
The following produces a first page with p.1 on the right half, but a
blank 2nd page:
\setuppapersize[A5,landscape][A4,landscape]
\setuparranging[2DOWN,rotated]
\starttext
\input
Dear Willi and Wolfgang,
Thanks for the explanations. I understand ConTeXt arranging a bit
better now and am trying more (and longer) experiments. I still can't
figure out this one, though. Even printing doublesided, you don't
want p.1 to vanish:
\setuppapersize[A5][A4,landscape]
texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --2up yourfile.pdf
I tried a few experiments with no luck. Not sure if it's a context or
texexec problem, or my confusion. I made the multi-page p5.pdf from
\setuppapersize[A4][A4]
\starttext
\dorecurse{50}{
\input tufte
}
\stoptext
Then I ran 'texexec
use --paperformat
in order to distinguish between paperoffset etc
Thanks. For achival value in case anyone else searches the list for
this topic, here's the command line that works for me:
texexec --pdfarrange --paperformat=a5a4 --print=2UP p5.pdf
(2SIDE also works, and the --print= is
I've mostly understood arranging but I cannot figure out how to make
2SIDE place a blank page (page 0, to not affect the page numbering) on
the left half of the first arranged sheet and carry on as normal. To
illustrate, where the enclosed numbers are the unarranged numbers:
p.1: | |1|
p.2:
Thomas,
Is it possible to refer to this raw counter across chapters?
Not sure -- it is beyond my ConTeXt bib module competence, but I hope
one of the resident experts has an idea...
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War
I'm playing with simple files in order to learn metafun. The following
small example produces an undefined figure. It illustrates either a
context problem or, more likely, a confusion on my part.
= cut here ===
\runMPgraphicstrue
Check your log file for
systems : system commands are enabled
Thanks, that was the problem. It was saying 'disabled' instead. The
fix was to change /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf to enable write18. The
shell_escape line has to be set to 't' rather than 'f', i.e.:
shell_escape = t
Actually,
Hans Hagen wrote:
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
Actually, on my system (Ubuntu, a Debian derivative), changing the
texmf.cnf file directly is not a good idea. Instead one should change
the same line in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf and then run
'update-texmf' as root to generate the texmf.cnf
Hans Hagen wrote:
well, opening files and overwriting them can be done anyway
That's true. Though the default teTeX setup seems to be (from
texmf.cnf):
% Allow TeX \openin, \openout, or \input on filenames starting with `.'
% (e.g., .rhosts) or outside the current tree (e.g., /etc/passwd)?
Hans Hagen wrote:
And, a small point of disagreement with the old man entry for texexec:
'texexec --output=dvi' produces pdf.
line 116 in tex.rb in the ruby base path can be adapted:
['dvips','ps','dvi'] .each do |b|
@@backends[b] = 'dvips' end
Hans Hagen wrote:
texexec --dvi test --nobackend
That works. As another test, using --output=dvi instead of --dvi
produces pdf even with --nobackend.
Just to be thorough, or difficult, I also tried
texexec test --nobackend
where pdftex is both front- and backend. It did the right thing
IMHO, bibtex should now generate keys such as Hoek2006a and
Hoek2006b or authoryear references like Hoekwater (2006a) and
Hoekwater (2006b), but it should not (!) append the a and b to
the years in the bibliographic list itself. But I may be wrong here
- what do you and other users say?
Hans Hagen wrote:
is there an html/javascript wizard who can help me with some issues
concerning a future version of context (not related to html
generation at all)
I'm willing to help with whatever skills I have. I programmed the
site http://columbiamedicine.org/education/clean.shtml. It
path = run(--expand-path=\\\$#{varname}) rescue ''
to
path = run(--expand-path=\$#{varname}) rescue ''
I also ran into this (a few weeks ago on the list) and the patch I
sent Hans after testing it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop was to use two
backslashes:
run(--expand-path=\\$#{varname})
so
In the following small example, two squares are cut out of the long
paragraph. The first is where the external figure belongs and goes, so
no problem with that. But the second removed square is after the
displayed equation, and it shouldn't be removed. If I comment out the
formula, then the
It works for me if put a \par or a empty line after the first
\input.
That's true, but doing so ends the paragraph. Shouldn't the displayed
math be part of the paragraph? The \input tufte's were just to make
the minimal example. It came from a paragraph with text and math that
begins with a
Is there a way to have texexec output separate pdf files for each
page it generates instead of a single pdf file?
Not sure, but pdftk (the PDF toolkit, a.k.a. Swiss army knife) has a
'burst' option. For example:
pdftk mydoc.pdf burst
gives you pg_0001.pdf, pg_0002.pdf, You can
:Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:36:27 -0400
From:Angela Zoss [www-admin] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Sanjoy Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ConTeXt submissions
At this time we have not had enough requests for support for ConTeXt
to warrant implementing this feature on our system
[this bounced before, I think due to disk space being used up on the
mailman server. Hopefully you don't get it twice]
Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, I played yesterday I bit with your example and can you give now
a solution for your problem.
At first I thought I'd need to
The small test file below uses \startMPinclusions[+], but it produces
TeX capacity exceeded from what looks like an endless loop. The error
msgs are below the file. This is with context 2006.08.08 21:51, and the
live ConTeXt (2006.09.17) gives the same error.
[I was trying to test whether I
I was trying experiments with the file below, changing r from 1cm to
10cm or vice versa, then rerunning texexec and looking at the pdf. But
the pdf changes only the second time that I run texexec (and each time,
texexec runs metafun for the embedded graphic). However, the pdf
changes right away
[Hans: Feature suggestion for figure inclusion at the end...]
I wrote:
So, is --final a requirement when using metafun, or am I hacking
around a problem I've caused by leaving something out?
An answer is that I should set \runMPgraphicstrue. I thought it was
automatically set,
Just for (meta)fun, I tried a few experiments with transparent colors.
The example below gives a black circle instead of a red one. Is it that
transparent colors aren't part of metafun -- which I can easily live
with since color printing is too expensive still, alas -- or have I
omitted an
Wolfgang,
Thanks for the pointer. I don't have a cont-sys.tex, but cont-sys.rme
has these lines
% \runMPgraphicstrue
% \runMPTEXgraphicstrue
The .rme extension meant I'd missed it when I ran grep on the .tex
files. I'll uncomment them.
Oh, that's not a good idea, because the next context
Maybe you also need
\runMPTEXgraphicstrue (enabled in my cont-sys.tex)?
I just enabled that in cont-sys.rme, and I put it in the test file for
good measure.
your example works here (beta 17.09.). I also tried your example at
contextgarden (same beta) and it worked too (using Firefox).
Is it also possible to get a copy of the flowchart manual to which
you refer?
The flowcharts page on the wikie
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Flow_Charts links to the manual.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in
These were the memory setting in the /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf
configlet that is part of Debian and Ubuntu:
main_memory = 100 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimfmp
main_memory.context = 150
main_memory.mpost = 150
I commented out the .mpost line (there was no
The following minimal file overruns the available output streams
(version 2006.08.08 and context live):
\starttext
\dorecurse{16}{\startstaticMPfigure{\recurselevel}
fill fullcircle scaled 1cm withcolor red;
\stopstaticMPfigure}
\stoptext
At the end are the last few lines of the log. Here are
Can someone verify this error please or is there something wrong
with my code?
The figure file is not found here as well (2006.08.08). But if I
change it to:
\startMPrun
\input test.mp
\stopMPrun
\starttext
\externalfigure[w-mprun.1][width=15mm]
\stoptext
then there's no problem (w.tex was
In this file, I intended that all labels would come out in 7pt:
=== cut here
\starttext
\startMPenvironment
\setupbodyfont[7pt]
\stopMPenvironment
\startMPinclusions
def drawtext =
label(btex In drawtext() macro. etex, origin);
enddef;
I had wondered:
only the label that is directly in the figure (Inline in the
figure.) comes out in 7pt. The other one, produced by the drawtext
macro, comes out in 12pt.
A possible solution is to put the verbatimtex at the beginning of
the mp file or after the input mp-grph, making it like
Another test file for metafun. I know that textext doesn't work in
loops. I don't understand how it's implemented enough to know why, but
is the reason for its not working in loops the same as the reason it
doesn't work in included definitions (related to static analysis of the
code)?
The
Another small metafun test file. It displays no text in the middle of
the ellipse. Using \textext instead of \sometxt works.
\starttext
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
draw \sometxt{hello};
draw fullcircle scaled 1cm xscaled 2;
\stopstaticMPfigure
\usestaticMPfigure[fig]
xyz
\stoptext
(I wonder if the live context has been having the same problem?)
I tried to fix it after Taco reported the exact problem. Plese test
if it's working now.
Thanks, the live context works! I tested this file:
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
\startreusableMPgraphic{a}
fill
I don't have a fix, only chiming in that I've seen the same issue. It
happened when I was learning about backgrounds, so I figured it was my
ignorance and didn't save the test file. But I'll try to reconstruct
it.
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
In another thread, Hans mentioned the 2006.09.25 beta. I tested it
against this test file and it works great:
\starttext
\dorecurse{20}{\startreusableMPgraphic{\recurselevel}
draw fullcircle scaled 3mm;
\stopreusableMPgraphic
\placefigure[here,none]{}{\reuseMPgraphic{\recurselevel}}}
\stoptext
Hans Hagen wrote:
demanding guy ... a static is just an mp graphic and mp does not know
a thing about \macros
Thanks, I understand now; and sorry, I hadn't meant it as a feature
request! I was trying only to learn the differences between all the
ways of doing *TeX labels in figures, and was
def processmpstatic
if filename = getvariable('filename') then
in tex.rb
looks like a messed up update
Ah, you're right and I just realized what happened.
'ctxtools --updatecontext' calls unzip with -uo:
-u update existing files and create new ones if needed. This
With the new beta, this stress test for \sometxt works fine:
\setupcolors[state=start]
\starttext
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
label(\sometxt{he\color[blue]{ab}lo}, origin) withcolor red;
draw fullcircle scaled 1cm xscaled 2;
sure, that's an option, but up to the user (maybe wikify this
suggestion)
Patrick: Not sure if it's a firefox-only problem or one that the
contextgarden wiki can help with by sending more detailed mime types,
but...
If I try to edit the top level of a page by clicking the edit tab at
the top,
\starttext
\startMPinclusions
input boxes
\stopMPinclusions
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
boxit.h(btex h etex);
drawboxed(h);
\stopstaticMPfigure
\usestaticMPfigure[fig]
xyz
\stoptext
hm, i'll add the inclusions
(here it fails anyway doe to some
Is it important to have -u?
dunno, probably only for speed reasons, so maybe we should use just -o
I agree. Correctness over speed, I think. -u makes testing reports
less reliable and can cause subtle bugs when all the files don't share
the same version (I noticed it soon in this case only
you can test the beta
This gives the clearboxes error:
=== box.tex ===
\startMPinclusions
input boxes
\stopMPinclusions
\starttext
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
boxit.h(btex h etex);
drawboxed(h);
\stopstaticMPfigure
\usestaticMPfigure[fig]
\stoptext
Hans Hagen wrote:
test case:
\setupcolors[state=start,textcolor=red]
\starttext
red
\color[green]{green
\startMPcode
label(\sometxt{green\color[blue]{blue}green}, origin)
withcolor red;
draw fullcircle scaled 1cm xscaled 2;
I'm using the 2006.09.26 beta, and noticed an extra gap before some
external metapost figures. Here is a small test:
test.mp =
beginfig(1)
draw fullcircle scaled (0.75in) xscaled 1.5;
endfig;
end
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
indeed, another option is to replace more of mp's color stuff by
context but then we may end up in other problems
I'm guessing that pdftex+lua will make it easier to meld tex and
metapost.
-Sanjoy
`A society of sheep must in time beget a government of
Hans Hagen wrote:
the problem (if you look into the mp file) is that there is *no*
beginfig; this is because we now use a more stupid (stripped down)
variant of saving the graphic.
Right, I looked into the mp file and saw the new plan.
\startstaticMPfigure{fig}
beginfig(1);
Ralf Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apparently I'm a bit mistaken:
--mode is working. --result is not. None is listed in texexec --help.
I haven't noticed problems with those. But could you post a short test
file and the full command line that you use? Then I can test it here
(running
Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If test.mp draws a square or rectangle instead of an ellipse, then
there's no difference (both versions of test.tex work).
looks like a bbox error
I didn't think so, because after mptopdf got hold of the figure, the
whitespace around the figure was right
I'm not sure if your command got mangled by the mailer disliking long
lines, but it looks like you have this line:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ~/texmf/scripts/context/ruby/texmfstart.rb texexec
t.tex -- result bla.pdf
i.e. something like texexec t.tex -- result bla.pdf
The texexec man entry, I
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