So, I'm still having this sort of problem, even with the latest version
of teTeX under MacOS X (with the countdown starting at 4000 now).
The MPtoPDF in my release is 1.2 apparently.
Any progress? Ideas?
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 04:27 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 08:04 PM 4/10/2002 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>
>> Wednesday, April 10, 2002 Daniel Pittman wrote:
>>
>> DP> So, there you go. That makes a substantial difference. Sorry if I
>> DP> confused the issue at all. It seems that running the output with
>> PDF
>> DP> output hits:
>>
>> DP> systems : begin file test at line 3
>> DP> layout : calculating backgrounds
>> DP> Randomizer initialized to 1638256672. [MP to PDF] (./mpgraph.8000
>> DP> ! Arithmetic overflow.
>> DP> <to be read again>
>> DP> \relax
>> DP> \doMPconcat ...expanddimen 18 \doMPexpanddimen 18
>> DP> \divide \dimen
>> 12 \dimen 1...
>>
>> DP> \flushconcatMPsegment ... {\gMPs 1}\a {\gMPs 2}\b
>> DP> \doMPconcat
>> {\gMPs 3}\c {\...
>>
>> DP> \body ->\flushconcatMPsegment
>> DP> \advance \nofMPsegments 1 \ifnum
>> \nofMPsegment...
>>
>> DP> \iterate ->\body
>> DP> \expandafter \iterate \else \fi
>> DP> \handleMPsequence ...\fi \fi \fi \fi \flushMPpath
>> DP> \closeMPpath
>> \finishMPpath...
>> DP> l.37 ...0.7071 -0.35356 0.7071 0 0] concat stroke
>> DP> grestore
>> DP> ?
>>
>> Smells like an MPtoPDF bug to me!
>
> Is that the latest version? The latest release follows a different
> method for high values (keep in mind that tex has no real calc); i need
> to distinguish, otherwise we loose to much precission (spent daaayyyys
> omn this)
>
> Hans
>
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