Hans Hagen said this at Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:38:25 +0200:
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.
Bug or feature? You decide, Hans!
bug; but
Hmm -- this is getting curioser and curioser...
I just verified on my linux partition, and I can confirm that
I don't have the problem there; it's only in OS X. (I'm having
different problems with my linux install, but that'll be
another post...). So Adam's educated guess that it must be some
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
OK, I'm back on OS X and checked:
1. created file 01_01_01.tex with this content:
\starttext
\startuseMPgraphic{circle}
draw fullcircle scaled 10 cm ;
\stopuseMPgraphic
\useMPgraphic{circle}
\stoptext
compiled fine; circle was there.
2. copied file to
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 fine. I
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, everything
works as it
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'
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,
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 enough,
Well, at least the old texexec processes the file. However, the
problem with metafun graphics I described occurs in the old texexec
(I'm not at all sure if the two problems are related).
Thomas
On Sep 12, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
bug; but does this mean that the old texexec
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
Well, at least the old texexec processes the file. However, the
problem with metafun graphics I described occurs in the old texexec
(I'm not at all sure if the two problems are related).
can you make me a smal test file?
Hans
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