At 02:18 PM 3/27/2002 +0000, Nigel King wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> There appears to be an incompatibility between the MetaPost graphing
> >> functions and MetaFun.
> >
> > Don't ask me why, but the following works (the problem is that metafun has
> > an adapted format.tex file); if you make me a couple of examples i can see
> > how i can support graph.mp in a better way (the point is that i want to
> > bypass the texnum stuff and provide real texing instead of the pseudo
> > texing in format.mp)
> >
> > \startMPinclusions
> > write "" to "texnum.mp" ; batchmode ; input graph ;
> > init_numbers
> > (textext("$-$"),
> > textext("$1$"),
> > textext("${\times}10$"),
> > textext("${}^-$"),
> > textext("${}^2$"));
> > Fe_base := textext("$10$") ;
> > \stopMPinclusions
> >
>This has certainly worked in the four documents that were unreliable that I
>was working on.
>
>I am a fairly new user of graph.mp and thus am not sure what you might want
>in the way of examples. The reason why I had the two versions of pictures in
>testmp.tex before the problem graph was because the btex...etex method of
>text inclusion in metapost is quite different than the "..." method of text
>inclusion and can cause different problems (particularly the mp to tex to
>dvi to mp process), thus my test file for context installation included both
>forms.
the problem is that in graph (and the associated format) btex/etex calls
are embedded, while metafun (texexec) handles this in its own way (as less
calls to tex as possible and so)
Also, the idea behind a format replacement is that we can let graph adapt
itself to style changes
Hans
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