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Matěj Týč

27 Oct 2009 27 Oct '09

1:02 p.m.

Hello, when I try to use MP code in my file, I follow the instructions, but when I compile the file, there is no result whatsoever. Text parts of the document are OK, but there is no trace of the image that should be there. The following is taken directly from metafun manual (page 9) as the minimal ConTeXt example: \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler. Therefore I assume that something must be wrong. Could you comment on that? Regards, Matej

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luigi scarso

27 Oct 27 Oct

1:58 p.m.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Matěj Týč wrote:

Hello, when I try to use MP code in my file, I follow the instructions, but when I compile the file, there is no result whatsoever. Text parts of the document are OK, but there is no trace of the image that should be there.

The following is taken directly from metafun manual (page 9) as the minimal ConTeXt example:

\starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext

Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler. Therefore I assume that something must be wrong. Could you comment on that?

\setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext No problem here with latest minimals and $>texexec test.tex and $>context test.tex -- luigi

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Matěj Týč

3:28 p.m.

2009/10/27 luigi scarso :

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Matěj Týč wrote:

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Hello, when I try to use MP code in my file, I follow the instructions, but when I compile the file, there is no result whatsoever. Text parts of the document are OK, but there is no trace of the image that should be there.

The following is taken directly from metafun manual (page 9) as the minimal ConTeXt example:

\starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext

Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler. Therefore I assume that something must be wrong. Could you comment on that?

\setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext

No problem here with latest minimals and $>texexec test.tex and $>context test.tex

Thank you for your reply, 1. I have completely missed that I have to run 'context' after texexec. I actually have read only about running texexec. Moreover the "contex online" ( http://live.contextgarden.net/ ) site most likely doesn't do that either since they produce empty PDFs if you paste those lines in the form. 2. I have TeXLive installed and when I run 'context', I get a MTXrun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx-context.lua' sortof error and exit code 1. Any suggestions on what can be wrong? Regards, Matej

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luigi scarso

3:33 p.m.

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Matěj Týč wrote:

2009/10/27 luigi scarso :

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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Matěj Týč wrote:

...
Hello, when I try to use MP code in my file, I follow the instructions, but when I compile the file, there is no result whatsoever. Text parts of the document are OK, but there is no trace of the image that should be there.

The following is taken directly from metafun manual (page 9) as the minimal ConTeXt example:

\starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext

Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler. Therefore I assume that something must be wrong. Could you comment on that?

\setupcolors[state=start] \starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext

No problem here with latest minimals and $>texexec test.tex and $>context test.tex

Thank you for your reply, 1. I have completely missed that I have to run 'context' after texexec. No no no -- sorry . texexec is context mkii, context is context mkiv, and I'm using minimals, not textlive .

So I'm saying that there are no problems with latest minimals, context mkii and with context mkiv too. I suggest to you to install minimals asap, see wiki.contextgarden.net -- luigi

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Aditya Mahajan

3:45 p.m.

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Matěj Týč wrote:

Hello, when I try to use MP code in my file, I follow the instructions, but when I compile the file, there is no result whatsoever. Text parts of the document are OK, but there is no trace of the image that should be there.

The following is taken directly from metafun manual (page 9) as the minimal ConTeXt example:

\starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext

Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler. Therefore I assume that something must be wrong. Could you comment on that?

This is because, by default, write18 is disabled in texlive. You can either enable it (see the wiki for details) or add \runMPgraphicsfalse on top of your file. Aditya

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Matěj Týč

7:01 p.m.

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\starttext \startuseMPgraphic{dummy} fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red ; \stopuseMPgraphic \useMPgraphic{dummy} \stoptext

Well, I get nothing on my setup as well as if I use the online compiler. Therefore I assume that something must be wrong. Could you comment on that?

This is because, by default, write18 is disabled in texlive. You can either enable it (see the wiki for details) or add

\runMPgraphicsfalse

on top of your file.

Thank you, Aditya, that was it. I have added 'mpost' to 'shell_escape_commands' in texmf.conf file. If it is possible, I would appreciate a warning that a shell command has not been escaped. I had no clue what might gone wrong. And last but not least, do you think that metapost can be a security threat? Because if not, I will write to TeXLive packagers to allow escaping of the 'mpost' command. Regards, Matej

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