Re: [NTG-context] mptopdf missing

2011-11-29 Thread Ernesto Posse
Thanks,

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 21:44, Ernesto Posse epo...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi. I have a fresh installation of ConTeXt on Ubuntu 11.10, straight
 from Ubuntu's repository (version 2011.05.18.20110627-1) but the
 mptopdf script seems to be missing, and mtxrun doesn't show any
 available scripts. What could be the problem?

 I would suggest to ask the Ubuntu maintainer of TeX Live package. I
 can tell you that mptopdf is a different package in TeX Live 2011, but
 ConTeXt should have a dependency on that package. What exactly Ubuntu
 did on their system ... I have no idea. The developer is free to ask
 questions here, but in principle we cannot help you much unless some
 Ubuntu freak speaks up.

I thought that mptopdf was part of ConTeXt... to is it part of TeX Live instead?

Another question:  when I run mtxrun --script I obtain nothing:

[eposse@flamenco:~/Tests/latex]  mtxrun --script

[eposse@flamenco:~/Tests/latex] 

My question is: shouldn't this return a list of available scripts?

Thanks.


 Mojca
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Re: [NTG-context] mptopdf missing

2011-11-29 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
 On 29-11-2011 18:07, Ernesto Posse wrote:

 Thanks,

 On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mojca Miklavec
 mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com  wrote:

 On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 21:44, Ernesto Posseepo...@gmail.com  wrote:

 Hi. I have a fresh installation of ConTeXt on Ubuntu 11.10, straight
 from Ubuntu's repository (version 2011.05.18.20110627-1) but the
 mptopdf script seems to be missing, and mtxrun doesn't show any
 available scripts. What could be the problem?


 I would suggest to ask the Ubuntu maintainer of TeX Live package. I
 can tell you that mptopdf is a different package in TeX Live 2011, but
 ConTeXt should have a dependency on that package. What exactly Ubuntu
 did on their system ... I have no idea. The developer is free to ask
 questions here, but in principle we cannot help you much unless some
 Ubuntu freak speaks up.


 I thought that mptopdf was part of ConTeXt... to is it part of TeX Live
 instead?


 It is part of context but as context moves on (mkiv) no user will use
 mptopdf as (1) mp processing is built into the core, and (2) fo rstand alone
 graphics the mkiv related context and metapost scripts can do the same as
 mptopdf.

I'm using it for stand-alone graphics, to be included in a latex file,
to be compiled with pdflatex. In short, I have a diagram in mp, and I
used to do the following:

mpost diagram.mp
mptopdf diagram.1

My understanding is that the .1 file generated by mpost is actually an
.eps file, but pdflatex doesn't accept it, and that's why I used
mptopdf. I do not see any options in either mpost or context that
would allow me to do that. How could I use any of these to get a pdf?


 Hans


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Re: [NTG-context] mptopdf missing

2011-11-29 Thread Ernesto Posse
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Hans Hagen pra...@wxs.nl wrote:
 On 29-11-2011 20:36, Ernesto Posse wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Hans Hagenpra...@wxs.nl  wrote:

 On 29-11-2011 18:07, Ernesto Posse wrote:


 Thanks,

 On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Mojca Miklavec
 mojca.miklavec.li...@gmail.com    wrote:


 On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 21:44, Ernesto Posseepo...@gmail.com
  wrote:


 Hi. I have a fresh installation of ConTeXt on Ubuntu 11.10, straight
 from Ubuntu's repository (version 2011.05.18.20110627-1) but the
 mptopdf script seems to be missing, and mtxrun doesn't show any
 available scripts. What could be the problem?



 I would suggest to ask the Ubuntu maintainer of TeX Live package. I
 can tell you that mptopdf is a different package in TeX Live 2011, but
 ConTeXt should have a dependency on that package. What exactly Ubuntu
 did on their system ... I have no idea. The developer is free to ask
 questions here, but in principle we cannot help you much unless some
 Ubuntu freak speaks up.



 I thought that mptopdf was part of ConTeXt... to is it part of TeX Live
 instead?



 It is part of context but as context moves on (mkiv) no user will use
 mptopdf as (1) mp processing is built into the core, and (2) fo rstand
 alone
 graphics the mkiv related context and metapost scripts can do the same as
 mptopdf.


 I'm using it for stand-alone graphics, to be included in a latex file,
 to be compiled with pdflatex. In short, I have a diagram in mp, and I
 used to do the following:

 mpost diagram.mp
 mptopdf diagram.1

 My understanding is that the .1 file generated by mpost is actually an
 ..eps file, but pdflatex doesn't accept it, and that's why I used

 mptopdf. I do not see any options in either mpost or context that
 would allow me to do that. How could I use any of these to get a pdf?


 what happens if you rename the .1 to .mps? inclusion of mp in pdftex should
 work ok in latex (as it uses the mp to pdf converter that is also used in
 mptopdf)

That seems to do the trick, thanks!




 Hans




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[NTG-context] mptopdf missing

2011-11-28 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hi. I have a fresh installation of ConTeXt on Ubuntu 11.10, straight
from Ubuntu's repository (version 2011.05.18.20110627-1) but the
mptopdf script seems to be missing, and mtxrun doesn't show any
available scripts. What could be the problem?

[eposse@flamenco:~/Tests/latex]  mptopdf
mptopdf: command not found
[eposse@flamenco:~/Tests/latex]  mtxrun --script

[eposse@flamenco:~/Tests/latex] 

In synaptic's package manager I can see that the following files where
installed, but not the actual script...

/usr/share/texmf/tex/mptopdf
/usr/share/texmf/tex/mptopdf/config
/usr/share/texmf/tex/mptopdf/config/mptopdf.ini

Thanks

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[NTG-context] luatex-cache setup

2011-04-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
Hello. I use a few tools from ConTeXt such as mptopdf, and whenever I
run them they generate a 'luatex-cache' folder directly under my user
folder, but this luatex-cache folder is not hidden. How can I
configure ConTeXt or luatex to tell it where the cache folder should
be? (I looked up the archives and docs but I didn't find anything
about this.)

Thanks

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Re: [NTG-context] luatex-cache setup

2011-04-12 Thread Ernesto Posse
I'm confused. my /etc/texmf.cnf file contains:

TEXMFCACHE = /var/tex/cache

and this directory exists but it is empty. Why is this being ignored?
If I don't have a user-specific environment variable with that name,
shouldn't the one from texmf.cnf be used?

Furthermore, when I run

kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFCACHE

it shows that directory, but when I run texconfig, TEXMFCACHE does not
appear under kpathsea variables. What is the problem?


PS: I'm running context 2009.11.26-2, luatex 0.60.1-1build2,
texlive-luatex 2009-10 on ubuntu 10.10.



On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Marco net...@lavabit.com wrote:
 On 2011-04-12 Ernesto Posse epo...@cs.queensu.ca wrote:

 Hello. I use a few tools from ConTeXt such as mptopdf, and whenever I
 run them they generate a 'luatex-cache' folder directly under my user
 folder, but this luatex-cache folder is not hidden. How can I
 configure ConTeXt or luatex to tell it where the cache folder should
 be? (I looked up the archives and docs but I didn't find anything
 about this.)

 Point the environment variable TEXMFCACHE to a directory
 where the user has write access to.


 Marco


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