[NTG-context] Strangest error -- Never seen before

3 Apr 2006

      All,

I have the strangest Metapost error. The attached file compiles with:

texexec section1figs

It compiles just fine. But if I take the last graphic in the file,  
copy it (everything between last \startMPpage...\stopMPpage pair,  
including \startMPpage ... \stopMPpage, then paste it at the end of  
the file,  then I get this error:

[10.1] [MP to PDF] (./section1figs-mpgraph.11) [11.1] [MP to PDF]
(./section1figs-mpgraph.12
! Dimension too large.
<recently read> \onebasepoint

\handleMPboundingbox ... \dimen 2 #5\onebasepoint
                                                   \xdef \MPyshift  
{\the \dim...
l.2 %%BoundingBox: -63 -57 67 23594

?

Any ideas?

[NTG-context] Strangest error -- Never seen before

David Arnold