Quoting nicola
Hi, I have tried the following example (metafun-p.pdf, p. 112-3):
\startMPgraphic draw unitsquare xscaled 5cm yscaled 1cm withpen pencircle scaled 2mm withcolor .625red; \stopMPgraphic
\hbox \bgroup \loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=5cm,height=1cm}\placeMPgraphic \quad \loadcurrentMPgraphic{width=8cm,height=1cm}\placeMPgraphic \egroup
but nothing is drawn unless I remove the setups in curly braces (in which case a rectangle 5cm x 1cm is drawn). Is there a different way to pass options to the figure inclusion macro?
Interesting....what is happening is something equivalent to \externalfigure [\MPgraphicfile.\the\currentMPgraphic] [type=mps,object=no, symbol=yes,reset=yes, maxwidth=,maxheight=, frame=off,background=, width=8cm, height=1cm]% and there is no figure. If I remove object=no, the figure is there. I do not understand why object=no should affect the placement of the figure. Aditya