I thought this would come with TeXlive or ConTeXt. It solved the problem obviously, sorry for not trying it before calling for help. Also, I removed "beginfig...endfig;" from the tex file.
However, now I can only see "e mc". No "=" nor "2". Is there a special version of pstoedit to install? I got mine from http://www.helga-glunz.homepage.t-online.de/pstoedit/. -- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote: >> >> Hi everybody, >> >> I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual >> but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files >> were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is >> it still usable/valid feature? >> >> I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp >> file and a tex file (which follows): >> \starttext >> \startMPcode >> input mp-grph ; >> >> beginfig(1) ; >> graphictext >> "$e=mc^2$" >> scaled 10 >> dashed evenly >> withdrawcolor .7blue >> withfillcolor .7white >> withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; >> endfig ; >> \stopMPcode >> \stoptext >> >> It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by >> TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on >> a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go >> down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", >> it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to >> convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun >> --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a >> literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be >> the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the >> way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest. > > > do you have pstoedit installed? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
