Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure e

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, I'm answering my own post. The plot thickens. It looks like this has something to do with file names. It only happens when I have a name with a period in it. Thusly, file 05.11.08.tex will not run MP to PDF, when I copy the exact same file to 05_11_08.tex, every

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: working directory, and -- I got no output again. diff shows that both files are identical. Looking at the logs, there's only one difference I can spot: Perhaps it can be that something decides that your file has the interesting filename extension '11.08-mpgraph.mp' i

Re: [NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
5:45 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure

[NTG-context] puzzling metafun graphics

2005-09-12 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
This one hast just cost me two hours, and I'm still baffled. The story (in shorthand): was trying to integrate a positional metafun graphic into a presentation. I got no output. I tried making a minimal example file to reproduce the problem, and sure enough, everything went fi

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-15 Thread Hans Hagen
Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: On Aug 13, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: \defineframed[Shaped][background=Shape,frame=off,location=low] Thanks. Still I could not get the right figure with \setuplayer[BackLayer][direction=reverse] Even though "direction=reverse" option was given, I got only the

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Vit Zyka wrote: Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: On Aug 13, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: \defineframed[Shaped][background=Shape,frame=off,location=low] Thanks. Still I could not get the right figure with \setuplayer[BackLayer][direction=reverse] Even though "direction=reverse" option was giv

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-12 Thread Vit Zyka
Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: On Aug 13, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: \defineframed[Shaped][background=Shape,frame=off,location=low] Thanks. Still I could not get the right figure with \setuplayer[BackLayer][direction=reverse] Even though "direction=reverse" option was given, I got only the f

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-12 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
On Aug 13, 2005, at 1:10 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: \defineframed[Shaped][background=Shape,frame=off,location=low] Thanks. Still I could not get the right figure with \setuplayer[BackLayer][direction=reverse] Even though "direction=reverse" option was given, I got only the first figure. Means tha

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-12 Thread Hans Hagen
Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Vit Zyka wrote: \defineframed[Shaped][...=...] Thanks. However what I wanted to know was the definition of \Shaped which generates the second figure in p.145 of metafun-p.pdf (the oval shape in the second line went to under the first oval

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-12 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
On Aug 12, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Vit Zyka wrote: \defineframed[Shaped][...=...] Thanks. However what I wanted to know was the definition of \Shaped which generates the second figure in p.145 of metafun-p.pdf (the oval shape in the second line went to under the first oval). Best, ChoF

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-12 Thread Vit Zyka
Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: StartPage .. StopPage will make a graphic as large as the current page; dimensions are passed by context to mp, but this happens before the graphic is drawn; so, the graphic becomes (default) a4. just omit the StartPage .. S

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-12 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: StartPage .. StopPage will make a graphic as large as the current page; dimensions are passed by context to mp, but this happens before the graphic is drawn; so, the graphic becomes (default) a4. just omit the StartPage .. StopPage (the inner on

Re: [NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Jin-Hwan Cho wrote: \startMPpage StartPage ; ... codes in p.208 here ... StopPage ; \stopMPpage In this case, the generated MPS file (ch93-1-mpgraph.1) had the bounding box (0, 0, 420, 596). When I used \startuseMPgraphic instead of \startMPpage, the generated MPS file had the different boundi

[NTG-context] \Shaped macro in MetaFun manual

2005-08-10 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
The third line in the page 145 in the MetaFun manual (metafun-p.pdf) says The \Shaped macro was defined as: some \inframed[background=Shape]{text} with a frame ... some \Shaped{text} with a frame ... It seems to be a typo. Let me know the exact definition of \Shaped macro

[NTG-context] A question on drawing functions in MetaFun

2005-08-10 Thread Jin-Hwan Cho
I tried to generate "Figure 9.2 An example of a graphic with labels along the axes." in metafun-p.pdf (p.209), but could get only graphics without labels. I used the codes in the page 208 as follows (see the attached file) \startMPpage StartPage ; ... codes in p.208 here ..

Re: [NTG-context] Draw a line with Metafun

2005-08-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Jessica Holle wrote: Hi, I want to draw a line myself with Metafun. This line should looks like in the module pre-05. I've copied a few lines and try to understand what there happend. But it failed. I've also read in the metafun.pdf, but it ist very hard to understand. I don

[NTG-context] Draw a line with Metafun

2005-08-08 Thread Jessica Holle
Hi, I want to draw a line myself with Metafun. This line should looks like in the module pre-05. I've copied a few lines and try to understand what there happend. But it failed. I've also read in the metafun.pdf, but it ist very hard to understand. I don't see the context betw

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-07-07 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: pstoedit now doesn't crash any more, but 'P' or 'O' for example don't have "holes" any more. I'll try to reinstall my cygwin or to compile the source of pstoedit on Linux later. If I understood correctly than this patch should solve the problem and -ssp should work again.

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-07-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec
I got the following answer from the author of pstoedit: > Concerning your crash. I think this is related to the -ssp option - > isn't it? Does the crash still happen without -ssp? Anyway - you could > compile the source code yourself, e.g. under cygwin and simply apply > the following patch. > >

[NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-07-03 Thread piskala upendran
Hi, i did as suggested. The Mp.tex is rendering grpahics perfectly. but the pstoedit 3.40 seems to be having problems. it crashes while doing the convertion. However when I change the text "MP" to "MPL", it crashes with the same error. but the pdf output contains only "MP" with the last

[NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread piskala upendran
akeMPY 1.1 - MetaFun / PRAGMA ADE 2000-2004 processing file : MP-mpgraph.mpo tex format : context requested texts : 1 generating : pdf file processing aborted : invalid `texexec --batch --once --interface=en --pdf' run second MP run needed : text

Re: [NTG-context] Re: metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I believe that the version 3.33 works, but I can't find it anywhere. i mailed you a copy yesterday (1 meg attachment) but you rmail agent may be to picky on zip files Hans -

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
I assume you are working under windows. You go in start -> settings -> control panel -> system -> advanced -> environmental variables (at least under xp) You have to chance the variable "path" and add there the path to pstoedit Hope that helps Wolfgang piskala upendran wrote: Hi all, I

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread piskala upendran
Hi all, I have installed a fresh gs view 4.7 and pstoedit 3.40 all latest version under windows. I installed pstoedit at H/program files/ghostgum directory. Generated new metafun.mem and udated at localtexmf/miktex/mem directory and texmf/web2c directories. MY makempy still complains about psto

[NTG-context] Re: metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
with the old GS. pstoedit 3.40 seems to work as well. I can make conversions from postscript to metapost outside ConTeXt without any problem. Also the posted example with metafun trickery works somehow. It crashes the pstoedit program, but obviously pstoedit manages to produce

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread luigi.scarso
Hans Hagen wrote: Mojca Miklavec wrote: I tried it out before reading that paragraph and I can approve: unless you have an ancient GS, it doesn't work at all. 3.40 at least does something even though it crashes. but i have no problems here with gs 8.51 (all 8 versions worked ok) and pstoed

Re: [NTG-context] Re: metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: I tried it out before reading that paragraph and I can approve: unless you have an ancient GS, it doesn't work at all. 3.40 at least does something even though it crashes. but i have no problems here with gs 8.51 (all 8 versions worked ok) and pstoedit 3.33, so how recen

[NTG-context] Re: metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
luigi.scarso wrote: > hmm, try on ctan: > > ctan/support/pstoedit/windows > > It should be an older (3.31) but good version . cited from the webpage: New or changed in 3.32: ... workaround to cope with a change introduced since ghostscript 7.04. Some new operators were added to ghostscript's i

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread luigi.scarso
Wolfgang Zillig wrote: Hello, I have problems with this graphic too. First I noticed that I don't have pstoedit installed on my computer. I downloaded version 3.40 from http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit. When I now run this MP code I get a Windows (xp) errormessage: Unhandled exception in pst

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Wolfgang Zillig
Hello, I have problems with this graphic too. First I noticed that I don't have pstoedit installed on my computer. I downloaded version 3.40 from http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit. When I now run this MP code I get a Windows (xp) errormessage: Unhandled exception in pstoedit.exe (STDDRIVERS.DL

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread luigi.scarso
MP.tex works after downgrading to pstoedit 3.33 luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread luigi.scarso
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > makempy --force --noclean MP-mpgraph.mpo The last lines in the (now kept) mpy-MP-mpgraph.tmp should be --cycle; endfig; end no, again --(144.658,2.99976)--(142.267,2.99976)..controls (133.659,2.99976) and (133.3,4.29492)..(133.3,9.08569)

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Hans Hagen
luigi.scarso wrote: MP.tex does not work for me. it works ok here MP.tex: \starttext \startMPcode graphictext "MP" scaled 8 outlinefill withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white dashed evenly withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; \stopMPcode \stoptext (133.659,2.99976) and (133.3,4.29492)..(13

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
luigi.scarso wrote: MP.tex does not work for me. [...] (141.789,0.23877)..(144.658,-0.000244141) --(144.658,2.99976)--(142.267,2.99976)..controls (133.659,2.99976) and (133.3,4.29492)..(133.3,9.08569) --cycle; --cycle; well, one of my bad day ? Looks like it. The last li

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-29 Thread luigi.scarso
sr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ec-base.map}{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map /pdftex/context/ec-public-lm.map}{/usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/context/ori ginal-base.map}] systems: end file MP at line 11 [flush and process MP-mpgraph.mp afterwards] ) esky/cm/cmr12.pfb> Output written on

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
> > Thanks for the hint. I never thought about installing pstoedit. I just > > noticed long time ago that I was unable to make such fancy things, but > > I thought I was simply to stupid to understand the manual :(. > > thanks for not blaming the stupid manual -) :) ..

[NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread piskala upendran
hello Taco, I did search the result of all the files. All the files are ok. except the MP-mpgraph.mpy and MP-mpgraph.1. The mpy shows only the %mpochecksum : 8298 rest are all blank. Iam also finding the error in MP-mpgraph.1 I am attaching the file. It means both mpy and MP-mpgraph.1 fil

Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
piskala upendran wrote: hello Taco, I did search the result of all the files. All the files are ok. except the MP-mpgraph.mpy and MP-mpgraph.1. The mpy shows only the %mpochecksum : 8298 rest are all blank. Iam also finding the error in MP-mpgraph.1 I am attaching the file. It means bo

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: metafun not working]

2005-06-28 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: Thanks for the hint. I never thought about installing pstoedit. I just noticed long time ago that I was unable to make such fancy things, but I thought I was simply to stupid to understand the manual :(. thanks for not blaming the stupid manual -) However: after I someh

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: metafun not working]

2005-06-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > On my linux system, I was missing the 'pstoedit' command. > I got a blank page (well, only a page number) just like > you, then I installed pstoedit, and now it looks fine. > > Taco Thanks for the hint. I never thought about installing pstoedit. I just noticed long time

[NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread piskala upendran
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Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
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Re: [NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread Taco Hoekwater
kpsewhich and texexec send by mr. Hans Hagen and installed pstoedit. updated the mem file and pdfetex.efmt using texexec --make --alone en metafun. still the problem exits except that the MakeMPY stopped complaining about pstoedit is not recogonise internal or external command. can you help me o

[NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread piskala upendran
Hi all, I did install the new kpsewhich and texexec send by mr. Hans Hagen and installed pstoedit. updated the mem file and pdfetex.efmt using texexec --make --alone en metafun. still the problem exits except that the MakeMPY stopped complaining about pstoedit is not recogonise internal or

[NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread piskala upendran
Hi all, I did install the new kpsewhich and texexec send by mr. Hans Hagen and installed pstoedit. updated the mem file and pdfetex.efmt using texexec --make --alone en metafun. still the problem exits except that the MakeMPY stopped complaining about pstoedit is not recogonise internal or

[NTG-context] metafun not working

2005-06-28 Thread piskala upendran
Hi all, I did install the new kpsewhich and texexec send by mr. Hans Hagen and installed pstoedit. updated the mem file and pdfetex.efmt using texexec --make --alone en metafun. still the problem exits except that the MakeMPY stopped complaining about pstoedit is not recogonise internal or

Re: [NTG-context] [Fwd: metafun not working]

2005-06-27 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On my linux system, I was missing the 'pstoedit' command. I got a blank page (well, only a page number) just like you, then I installed pstoedit, and now it looks fine. Taco Hans Hagen wrote: Original Message Subject: metafun not working Date: Sat, 25 Jun 200

[NTG-context] [Fwd: metafun not working]

2005-06-27 Thread Hans Hagen
Original Message Subject: metafun not working Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:39:06 -0700 (PDT) From: piskala upendran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hi Mr. Hans, I was trying to run the metafun example as given below. It gave one blank pdf page. I mov

Re: [NTG-context] lost position information with metafun registers

2005-05-21 Thread Richard Hirsch
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 12:50 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > that one gav eme a headache; i finally figured out that it's due to the fact > that positions are not yet loaded (so, if you move \starttext to the top of > your > file, things would have worked ok) > > here is a patch for page-lyr.tex: >

Re: [NTG-context] lost position information with metafun registers

2005-05-19 Thread Hans Hagen
Richard Hirsch wrote: Does somebody have an idea what might go wrong? Do I miss an important setting or activation? (I am using ConTeXt ver: 2005.01.31 fmt: 2005.4.26 int: english mes: english in connection with tetex 3.0-13 on a linux box.) Or might this rather be a problem with the acrobat re

[NTG-context] lost position information with metafun registers

2005-05-18 Thread Richard Hirsch
Dear ConTeXt users (and developers), I am very fond of the presentation capabilites of ConTeXt, especially in connection with the Metafun macros. A big hand for the ConTeXt team! Now I want to link some checkboxes to a MPgraphic (a fieldstack actually) and I thought, that the best approach would

Re: [NTG-context] metafun example & utf8 input problem

2004-12-25 Thread VnPenguin
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:20:28 +, Adam Lindsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > > Replace all this preamble stuff with something that gets sent to both > ConTeXt and MetaFun: > > \startMPenvironment[global] > \enableregime[utf] > \setupencoding[defa

Re: [NTG-context] metafun example & utf8 input problem

2004-12-25 Thread Adam Lindsay
VnPenguin said this at Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:35:36 +0100: >I'm trying the example at page 236 Graphics and macros (metafun-s.pdf). >I use vietnamese utf-8 input with T5.: >--- code --- >\enableregime[utf] >\setupencoding[default=t5]

[NTG-context] metafun example & utf8 input problem

2004-12-24 Thread VnPenguin
Hi all, I'm trying the example at page 236 Graphics and macros (metafun-s.pdf). I use vietnamese utf-8 input with T5.: --- code --- \enableregime[utf] \setupencoding[default=t5] \loadmapfile[urwvn] \usetypescript[all][computer-modern][t5] \setupbodyfont[

Re: Re: [NTG-context] strange behavior of MetaFun

2004-10-04 Thread ???
10-04 ???:=== >Sun Minchao wrote: > >> >> /Hi,/ >> // >> /recently I've installed ConTeXt and after all the complicated >> configurations I could finally write my first chinese text, but as I >> tried MetaFun today, I got very strange error m

Re: [NTG-context] strange behavior of MetaFun

2004-10-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Sun Minchao wrote: /Hi,/ // /recently I've installed ConTeXt and after all the complicated configurations I could finally write my first chinese text, but as I tried MetaFun today, I got very strange error message: I tried to compile the trivial sample on the first page of "met

[NTG-context] strange behavior of MetaFun

2004-10-03 Thread Sun Minchao
Hi,   recently I've installed ConTeXt and after all the complicated configurations I could finally write my first chinese text, but as I tried MetaFun today, I got very strange error message: I tried to compile the trivial sample on the first page of "metafun-p.pdf":

[NTG-context] incompatibility metafun / metaobj

2004-09-17 Thread Eckhart Guthöhrlein
Hi all, there seems to be an incompatibility between metafun's anglebetween macro and the metaobj package. Sample input: \startMPinclusions input metaobj; \stopMPinclusions \startreusableMPgraphic{ff} draw anglebetween(origin--(0,100),origin--(100,0),(btex $\vartheta$ etex)); \sto

[NTG-context] Re: metafun manual

2004-08-31 Thread Jojo
+++ Hans Hagen [31/08/04 10:25 +0200]: > Jojo wrote: > > >Would you plan to release a Chinese version? I am glad to be a volunteer translate > >for that. > > > > > could be a challenge, remind me later (once the source code of the manual is stable > translation should be no problem) Best wis

Re: [NTG-context] Re: metafun manual

2004-08-31 Thread Hans Hagen
Jojo wrote: >Would you plan to release a Chinese version? I am glad to be a volunteer translate >for that. > > could be a challenge, remind me later (once the source code of the manual is stable translation should be no problem) Hans ---

Re: [NTG-context] metafun manual

2004-08-31 Thread Hans Hagen
ishamid wrote: Stupid question;-) Can Metafun work with e-tex/aleph--dvipdfmx? As you know I am contemplating actually learning meta for the Arabic project... it will work when some bug in dvipdfmx is solved (some interference between direct code and cm matrices); i mailed about it with Chof

[NTG-context] Re: metafun manual

2004-08-30 Thread Jojo
+++ Brooks Moses [30/08/04 12:37 -0700]: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:21:29PM +0200, Floris van Manen wrote: > > >> I'm going to 'finish' the metafun manual, so if you have topics that > > >> need to be covered ... That's Great !! > > If yo

Re: [NTG-context] metafun manual

2004-08-30 Thread Brooks Moses
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 09:21:29PM +0200, Floris van Manen wrote: > >> I'm going to 'finish' the metafun manual, so if you have topics that > >> need to be covered ... If you'd like volunteers to proofread the finished version, I'd be glad to help with t

Re: [NTG-context] metafun question

2004-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Floris van Manen wrote: it seems that metafun has difficulty understanding the example using no, it's tex playing tricks (# is kin dof special to tex) thevardef [EMAIL PROTECTED] expr p = construct. use \# instead

Re: [NTG-context] metafun question getting XY

2004-08-16 Thread Hans Hagen
Floris van Manen wrote: if i define a path q := (w0,w0)--(w0,ww0)--(w2,ww1)--(w3,ww2)--(w3,w0)--cycle ; and then pass this path as a parameter to a function test( q ) ; then within that function i can step through the 'list of points'. def test( expr a ) = for i = 1 upto (length(a)-2): dotlabel.b

[NTG-context] metafun question getting XY

2004-08-16 Thread Floris van Manen
if i define a path q := (w0,w0)--(w0,ww0)--(w2,ww1)--(w3,ww2)--(w3,w0)--cycle ; and then pass this path as a parameter to a function test( q ) ; then within that function i can step through the 'list of points'. def test( expr a ) = for i = 1 upto (length(a)-2): dotlabel.bot ("" , (point

[NTG-context] metafun question

2004-08-16 Thread Floris van Manen
it seems that metafun has difficulty understanding the example using thevardef [EMAIL PROTECTED] expr p = construct. ! Illegal parameter number in definition of [EMAIL PROTECTED]@dummy2. ... p of p enddef; \par vardef [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [NTG-context] "Animation" in slides (\presentationstep, metafun)

2004-08-04 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: 2.) filling-up a table This is a more complicated example and probably "playing with TeX" may be the only solution, but I'll ask anyway. I need to make something similar as, say, multiplication table or a table for dynamic programming calculation of minimum editing distance. T

[NTG-context] "Animation" in slides (\presentationstep, metafun)

2004-08-04 Thread Mojca Miklavec
owerPoint (I never did until now) if I was forced to make something similar in the way they did (using the same tools, tricks and complexity). I think I would be able to solve this anyhow, but with way too much effort and without some dirty trick. Can please someone provide me some minimalistic exam

Re: [NTG-context] metafun

2004-06-24 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made texexec --make metafun to generate metafun format. And it said it generated it. But... I always get these messages kpathsea: Running mktexfmt metafun.mem fmtutil: no info for format `metafun'. texexec ---make --alone metafun move the mem file to the

Re: [NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yep, it seems to work...it generates metafun.mem in the same directory it was invoked... do I have to invoke texexec --make --alone in a specific directory to perform correct installation of ConTeXt ? I have not seen anything like that mentioned in install document... th

Re: [NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Hans Hagen
The output you have sent me (private mail) showed that you use the latest ConTeXt texfiles, but the perl progam "texexec" was not updated. Did texexec --make --alone metafun work? watch out: scripts are now under ../texmf*/scripts/context and no longer under ../texmf/context/ ; normally

[NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi Jose, > do I have to invoke > > texexec --make --alone > > in a specific directory to perform correct installation of ConTeXt ? texexec --make --alone bypasses your distribution's way of installing format files (fmtutil in your case I guess). Put the resulting format files (*.fmt, *efmt, *mem

Re: [NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread jimarin
; are mirrors, but I don't know how uptodate they are. > > The output you have sent me (private mail) showed that you use the > latest ConTeXt texfiles, but the perl progam "texexec" was not > updated. > > Did texexec --make --alone metafun work? > &

[NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
utput you have sent me (private mail) showed that you use the latest ConTeXt texfiles, but the perl progam "texexec" was not updated. Did texexec --make --alone metafun work? Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062 ___

Re: [NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread jimarin
you are right...mine is 3.1 but I don't understand...I downloaded cont-tmf.zip yesterday from pragma-ade downloading page... is it not the right place/version? where should I get the lattest? thanks again ! Jose > Hi, > > try texexec --alone --make metafun > > and your t

[NTG-context] Re: metafun

2004-06-23 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hi, try texexec --alone --make metafun and your texexec is (as far as I can judge) far out of date. TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004 is current Patrick -- texshow-web: http://members.ping.de:8061 ConTeXt wiki: http://members.ping.de:8062

[NTG-context] metafun

2004-06-23 Thread jimarin
I have made texexec --make metafun to generate metafun format. And it said it generated it. But... I always get these messages kpathsea: Running mktexfmt metafun.mem fmtutil: no info for format `metafun'. when doing texexec --pdf to my tex-beauties... it seems that he goes for met

Re: [NTG-context] scaling externalfigure in metafun

2004-06-10 Thread Hans Hagen
Nigel King wrote: I apologize in advance for asking what I am sure is a repeated question but I cannot find the answer in manuals and archives. In Metafun externalfigure "file.pdf" xyscale(x,y) ; how does one find the size of a graphic in order to scale it appropriately texexec --p

[NTG-context] scaling externalfigure in metafun

2004-06-10 Thread Nigel King
I apologize in advance for asking what I am sure is a repeated question but I cannot find the answer in manuals and archives. In Metafun externalfigure "file.pdf" xyscale(x,y) ; how does one find the size of a graphic in order to scale it appropriately TI

[NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, > I thought textext was just a faster version of btex ... etex and > supposed that this would be the 'way to go', since it is a part of > MetaFun. I guess you know now; but for the record: btexetex does not allow any variable part in the text to be typeset.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Sebastian Sturm
Hi, any reason you use textext here? Do you need changing labels? If not, you should use [...] draw btex $\frac{a}{b}$ etex; [...] I thought textext was just a faster version of btex ... etex and supposed that this would be the 'way to go', since it is a part of MetaFun. But I check

[NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Sebastian (sorry for sending twice; this time to the list), > \startuseMPgraphic{test} > draw textext("$\frac{a}{b}$"); > draw textext("$\root a \of b$"); > \stopuseMPgraphic any reason you use textext here? Do you need changing labels? If not, you should use -

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Sebastian Sturm
Hi, Well, you should post a *complete* and *minimal* examplefile showing your problem, together with the context/metafun version numbers (or logfile). This way emails like the last one can be avoided and the others can try to reproduce the problem without hassle. okay, sorry for that. I&#x

[NTG-context] Re: Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Patrick Gundlach
howing your problem, together with the context/metafun version numbers (or logfile). This way emails like the last one can be avoided and the others can try to reproduce the problem without hassle. Patrick ___ ntg-context mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [NTG-context] Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Sebastian Sturm
Hi, Hello Sebastian, I don't know much about Metafun yet, but shouldn't you use math-mode for \root and \frac? oops, stupid typo. The code that didn't want to compile was textext("$\root a \of b$") and textext("$\frac{a}{b}$"), so I only forgot the math signs

Re: [NTG-context] Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, 16 May 2004, Sebastian Sturm wrote: > when trying to set fractions or non-square roots in Metapost figures > using the Metafun macro textext (textext("\frac{a}{b}") or > textext("\root a \of b")), I get the error message > > !Missing $ inserted.

[NTG-context] Another Metafun issue

2004-05-16 Thread Sebastian Sturm
Hi, when trying to set fractions or non-square roots in Metapost figures using the Metafun macro textext (textext("\frac{a}{b}") or textext("\root a \of b")), I get the error message !Undefined control sequence $\setbox \rootbox \hbo

Re: [NTG-context] Help Wanted: Apple Preview.app and Metafun Manual

2004-03-02 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi, I printed metafun-p.pdf using Preview.app on an HP Laserjet 4100 dtn (black and white) and noticed that beginning from page 37 (physical page number 41) of that document the output is fuzzy. Also I noticed that it takes a much longer time to print the pages 37 onward (for instance the 14

[NTG-context] Help Wanted: Apple Preview.app and Metafun Manual

2004-03-01 Thread Wendy McKay
Hi all, We need your help in tracking down a possible bug with the Apple Preview.app when printing the Metafun manual (pdf) <http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/metafun-p.pdf> from page 37 onward. We (and Apple) would appreciate it very much if some of you would do te

Re: [NTG-context] Number formating in MetaFun

2004-01-11 Thread Nigel King
Thanks Hans, as usual perfect! Nigel King - CTO Orthogon Systems On 9 Jan 2004, at 23:47, Hans Hagen wrote: At 14:01 09/01/2004, Nigel King wrote: For the MetaFun Experts, Section 9.2 of the MetaFun manual gives vlogtext.bot(0, 10, 9, 10cm, "@3e") ; The formating of the numbers is con

Re: [NTG-context] Number formating in MetaFun

2004-01-09 Thread Hans Hagen
At 14:01 09/01/2004, Nigel King wrote: For the MetaFun Experts, Section 9.2 of the MetaFun manual gives vlogtext.bot(0, 10, 9, 10cm, "@3e") ; The formating of the numbers is controlled by "@3e". I have been trying to find the command which control this number formating with

[NTG-context] Number formating in MetaFun

2004-01-09 Thread Nigel King
For the MetaFun Experts, Section 9.2 of the MetaFun manual gives vlogtext.bot(0, 10, 9, 10cm, "@3e") ; The formating of the numbers is controlled by "@3e". I have been trying to find the command which control this number formating without success. Please could somebody p

Odp: Re: [NTG-context] The smallest instalation for work with ConTeXt and MetaFun (TeXLive8) ?

2003-10-07 Thread ^Nitram^
n other computer and I: - get 'generic basic' type of installation (with pictex(2) and langpolish) - without any changes - works fine, but no polish characters and metapost - make plr fonts and metafun format - fine, but no metapost - uncomment \useMETAFUNformattrue,

Re: [NTG-context] The smallest instalation for work with ConTeXt and MetaFun (TeXLive8) ?

2003-10-06 Thread Hans Hagen
At 04:35 06/10/2003, you wrote: Anybody has an experience with TeXLive (8 or 7) - what is the smallest installation type for working with ConTeXt and (absolutely necessary) MetaFun - I tried 'generic basic' and 'generic recommended' but I can't make MP graphics - I hav

Re: [NTG-context] The smallest instalation for work with ConTeXt and MetaFun (TeXLive8) ?

2003-10-06 Thread Sebastian Rooks
^Nitram^ wrote: Hi, Anybody has an experience with TeXLive (8 or 7) - what is the smallest installation type for working with ConTeXt and (absolutely necessary) MetaFun - I tried 'generic basic' and 'generic recommended' but I can't make MP graphics - I have a problem w

[NTG-context] The smallest instalation for work with ConTeXt and MetaFun (TeXLive8) ?

2003-10-05 Thread ^Nitram^
Hi, Anybody has an experience with TeXLive (8 or 7) - what is the smallest installation type for working with ConTeXt and (absolutely necessary) MetaFun - I tried 'generic basic' and 'generic recommended' but I can't make MP graphics - I have a problem with it

Re: [NTG-context] Metafun 2X

2003-07-31 Thread David Arnold
All, Never mind. Found it on page 214 of the metafun manual: \runMPgraphicstrue At 11:58 AM 7/31/03 -0700, you wrote: >All, > >I am revisiting the metafun manual. Everytime I compile with: > >texexec --pdf junk > >I have to compile a second time with > >texexec --p

[NTG-context] Metafun 2X

2003-07-31 Thread David Arnold
All, I am revisiting the metafun manual. Everytime I compile with: texexec --pdf junk I have to compile a second time with texexec --pdf junk before I can see changes to my graphics. What can I change and where so that I will only have to compile once

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