Hi Sanjoy,
Sorry for the late reply; I had to dig around in grph-inc.lua, and I'm
a bit rusty at source-diving.
Yep, that’s a problem all right. A bug, even: when you put `simple.1`
in the same directory as the `.tex` file, it is correctly identified
as MetaPost; when you put the exact same file in a subdirectory like
`./fig`, you get the problem you describe. No clue why.
Until Hans fixes this, you can force ConTeXt to treat a file as
MetaPost, JPEG, etc. by passing the `method=` paramater to
`\externalfigure`. For MetaPost, write `method=mps`; I don’t know why
the MetaPost code is not `mp`. (Perhaps that could be made a synonym?)
Complete example below. I hope this workaround helps? Good luck with your work!
Cheers,
Sietse
% test.tex
\setupexternalfigures[directory={fig}]
\enabletrackers[graphics.locating]
\starttext
\externalfigure[simple.1][width=10cm, method=mps]
\stoptext
% fig/simple.1
%!PS
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 29 29
%%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 28.34645 28.34645
%%Creator: MetaPost 1.803
%%CreationDate: 2013.08.04:0841
%%Pages: 1
%%BeginProlog
%%EndProlog
%%Page: 1 1
0 0 0 setrgbcolor
newpath 0 0 moveto
28.34645 0 lineto
28.34645 28.34645 lineto
0 28.34645 lineto
closepath fill
showpage
%%EOF
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