At 02:24 PM 6/27/2002 -0400, David Petrou wrote:
>but when i run the texexec command what you suggested (texexec --make
>--alone en metafun), i get:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=221441].
>\docopyvalue ... \@EA \@EA \csname #1#3\endcsname
> \@EA {\csname
> #2#3\endcsna...
>
>\next1 #1,->\docopyparameter {#1}
> \doprocesscommaitem
><argument> ...ergrondraster ,\c!achtergrondkleur ,
> \c!uitlijnen ,\c!onder
> ,\c...
>
>\doprocesscommalist ...aitem \gobbleoneargument #1
> ,]\relax \global
> \advance ...
>
>\copylocalframed ...c!boven ,\c!strut ,\c!plaats ]
> \copyparameters
> [#1\c!acht...
>
>\dododefinieerplaatsblok ...localframed [\??fl #1]
> \stelplaatsblokin [#1]
> [\c...
>...
>l.1826
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is weird, and it looks like something is wrong with your system setup;
>so what i did instead was first run `texexec --make en nl' like the
>instructions suggest, and then run `texexec --make --alone metafun'.
ok (btw, a next tetex can generate metafun formats as well but i still have
to patch texexec for that)
you can try
texconfig -e
or so, and uncomment the metafun line of it's there
>after moving the metafun.mem file, things work fine, except it takes
>REALLY long to process a simple one-line file.
ok, then indeed something's wrong with your system, did you run
mktexlsr
(generate file database)
>the docs say that things can take a long time if i made a mistake
>doing installation. but i really tried hard to follow the
>instructions to the letter. i'm appending below what a run looks
>like. (i actually ran it twice in case there were caching effects.)
when the file database is generated (ls-r files) tex programs become much
faster in file lookup (now the slow down comes from locating font files and so)
>also we're still left with the mystery of why i had to run `texexec
>--make --alone metafun' from the directory that holds metafun.mp.
has to do with the fact that until recently, tex installations did not
generate metapost formats at the user's site
>another (smallish) mystery: the docs say to modify a file called
>`cont-sys.tex' to set certain defaults, etc. but this file doesn't
>exist. there are other files with different extensions. perhaps a
>doc typo?
search for cont-sys.rme
Hans
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