[NTG-context] Using metapost figures in context (offlist)

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> > n lines deleted
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I added to texexec:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> texexec --mpgraphic somefile.mp
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> which will run mp and make a pdf file.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Something is wrong with the new beta. I downloaded the zip and 
>>>>>>> regenerated the formats, but only metafun format is created. I am 
>>>>>>> attaching the output of
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> texmfstart --verbose texexec --verbose --make --all
>>>>>> actually, the problem is that the latest pdfetex is not called pdftex; 
>>>>>> can you remove all traces or pdftex[.exe] in your bin path and see what 
>>>>>> happens then?
>>>>> 
>>>>> No pdftex is in the path.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I call context by using
>>>>> set PATH=E:\Ruby\bin
>>>>> call E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex\setuptex.bat 
>>>>> E:\isoimage\usr\local\context\tex
>>>>> 
>>>>> so there should not be any mismatched executables.
>>>> ah ... typo in base/tex.rb:
>>>>
>>>>   @@pdftex     = 'pdftex' # new default, pdfetex is gone
>>>>
>>>>   ENV['PATH'].split(File::PATH_SEPARATOR).each do |p|
>>>>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> 
>>>> Can you test that?
>>> 
>>> Yes, this works. The formats are generated correctly. However,
>>> texmfstart texexec --mpgraphic file.mp
>>> 
>>> does not give me a pdf file. I do understand why this is happening. I will 
>>> dig into it a bit more and see what is going wrong.
>> 
>> In tex.rb
>>
>>  def processmpgraphic
>>  ...
>>      if data =~ /output files written\:\s*(.*)$/mois then
>>  ....
>> 
>> However, if the mp file contains only one figure, the output in the log is
>> 
>> 1 output file written: figures-axis.1
>> 
>> Notice /file/ instead of /files/. So the regex should be changed according. 
>> Then everything works.
>
>               if data =~ /output files* written\:\s*(.*)$/mois then
>
That does the trick. --mpgraphic is working correctly. However, there 
is no message on the console saying that a pdf file is created. Can 
you add
   report ("{#name}.#{number} converted to #{filename}.#{number}.pdf")
and
  report ("#{name}.#{number} converted to #{filename}.pdf")

after File.silentrename lines.

Aditya