On 7/22/07, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello Wolfgang and others,
>
> Has anyone ever managed to use "\useMPlibrary[txt]" in the last two or
> three years?

The example (stroked roman-numerals for enumeration) at the bottom of
<http://wiki.contextgarden.net/User-Defined_Enumerations> still works
for
me.

> On 7/21/07, Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini wrote:
> > Hallo,
> >
> > the following code let ghostscript fail.
> > What is wrong her?
> >
> > Wolfgang
> >
> > \setupcolors  [state=start]
> > \starttext
> > \useMPlibrary[txt]
> > \startlinecorrection
> > \TightText{\ss\bf 123}{0cm}{3cm}{red}
> > \stoplinecorrection
> > \stoptext
> > %
> > %ConTeXt  ver: 2007.07.03 19:38 MKII
> > %pstoedit: version 3.44 / DLL interface 108
> > %GPL Ghostscript 8.57 (2007-05-11)
>
> I've written to the author of pstoedit exactly two years ago, when
> pstoedit v. 3.40 was indeed broken (approved by the author). He sent
> me a patch, but I didn't know how to compile the program, and I never
> tested it since then.

The above example fails using pstoedit 3.44 and ghostscript 8.60, but
with this version, ghostscript takes 100% CPU until killed.

> Hans claimed that version 3.33 worked for him (and others approved
> that downgrading worked), but it didn't work for me, since I would
> need an older GS version as well.
>
> Here some infinite loop occurs when I call
>     pstoedit -ssp -dt -f mpost mpy-bla-mpgraph.pdf mpy-bla-mpgraph.tmp
> (which is what ConTeXt does in line 328 of makempy.pl)

Older GS exits:
ESP Ghostscript 815.04: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1

Newer GS (8.60) loops.

> I have no dea whether that's pdtoedit's or ghostscript's problem. I
> hope that the author of pstoedit will reply and figure out what the
> problem could be.


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