From - Fri Sep 3 12:40:47 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mailer.gwdg.de (mailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.26]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i83AegI0023422 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:40:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from gwdu71.gwdg.de ([134.76.8.21]) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1C3BUn-0001SI-Vj for metafont@ens.fr; Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:40:42 +0200 Received: from localhost by gwdu71.gwdg.de (8.11.1/1.1.29.3/16Jun03-0924AM) id i83Aefg0000055479; Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:40:41 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: gwdu71.gwdg.de: lfinsto1 owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 12:40:41 +0200 (MEST) From: Laurence Finston To: liste metafont Subject: Announcement: GNU 3DLDF Pre-Alpha Versions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.1 points, 6.0 required 0.1 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:40:42 +0200 (CEST) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Announcement: GNU 3DLDF Pre-Alpha Versions GNU 3DLDF is a package for three-dimensional drawing with MetaPost output. It is free software and part of the GNU Project of the The Free Software Foundation. http://www.gnu.org http://www.gnu.org/software/3dldf/LDF.html I am currently preparing an alpha (i.e., experimental) release of GNU 3DLDF. This will be the first release to include an input routine, thus making GNU 3DLDF an interactive program. Until now, it has been necessary to write user code in C++ and continually rebuild the executable in order to make drawings. The new version implements a language modelled on Donald Knuth's Metafont and John Hobby's MetaPost languages, so it should seem familiar to users of those packages. For example, this is a simple but complete 3DLDF program: beginfig(1); point p[]; p0 := (2, 0, 10); dodecahedron d; d := unit_dodecahedron rotated (15, 15, 15) scaled 5 shifted p0; draw d; dotlabel.top("$p_0$", p0); endfig; end; There is quite a bit of work left to do, both on the program itself and on the documentation. However, both are far enough along so that people could start using the package. I am making my development versions available on the CVS repository of the 3DLDF project on the GNU Savannah site: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/3dldf/3dldf/Group/ I have taken steps to make it easier for people to download and install the package. The compressed archive file `3DLDFsnp.tar.gz' in the directory http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/3dldf/3dldf/Group/SNAPSHOTS/ contains all the files needed to install the package. Alternatively, CVS users can download the entire repository from Savannah. Instructions for doing this can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=3dldf Instructions for installing and using GNU 3DLDF can be found in the files `00INSTALL', `INSTALL', `00README', and `README' in http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/3dldf/3dldf/Group/ I am currently in the process of updating these files, so if anything in them is confusing, please don't hesitate to ask for assistance. Please post queries to the `help-3dldf@gnu.org' mailing list (see below). I have started rewriting the _3DLDF User and Reference Manual_ to account for my changes. These files can be found in http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/3dldf/3dldf/Group/DOC/TEXINFO The files are Texinfo input files, however readers should pretend for the present that they are plain text and ignore the markup, because it is not yet possible to generate output from them. I will be updating my sources and documentation regularly and checking them into the repository. If anyone has questions, he or she is welcome to post them to the help-3dldf@gnu.org mailing list. To subscribe, please visit http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-3dldf or send an email with `subscribe
' in the subject to help-3dldf-request@gnu.org. Constructive feedback and reports on problems installing or using the program would be very welcome. Please address them to the help-3dldf@gnu.org mailing list. Laurence Finston GNU 3DLDF maintainer Fingerprint: 0007 566D B0E0 96AE 3F4A EBE5 6213 D0F0 7376 08BA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBOElVYhPQ8HN2CLoRAsK4AJ9q7MYW6O6tyOAyeosgg4mCNpnyugCgg5kw jUTWVzfBHFOzHs9+Vi+MGrY= =3Jpj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- From - Sat Sep 4 19:51:12 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with SMTP id i84HpA0E003646 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 19:51:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 32362 invoked by uid 65534); 4 Sep 2004 17:51:09 -0000 Received: from pD9FF8853.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO matthias) (217.255.136.83) by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 04 Sep 2004 19:51:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #2798017 From: Matthias Pospiech Reply-To: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: [metapost] inclusion (input) of files Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:51:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409042151.53304.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sat, 04 Sep 2004 19:51:10 +0200 (CEST) I want to take some code out of the main metapost file and include it with "input diagram.mp". However if I do that I get the following error: [matthias@Matthias a4]$ make ps mpost -tex=latex 'test' This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (test.mp (latexmp.mp) (diagram.mp/usr/bin/makempx: Command failed: latex mpxerr.tex; see mpxerr.log >> diagram.mp >> diagram.mpx ! Unable to make mpx file. l.46 ^^Ilabel.llft(btex trifft voll zu etex scaled 0.7,(0,0)); Transcript written on test.log. the same code inside the main file works fine. What is wrong ? Matthias -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Pospiech Schneiderberg 28, 30167 Hannover email: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de Web: http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/ ICQ: 60941314 Tel: +49 (0)511-3534318 Mobil: +49 (0)170-5586781 --------------------------------------------------------------- From - Sat Sep 4 20:03:56 2004 Return-Path: Received: from amsfep20-int.chello.nl (amsfep12-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.18]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i84I3rf4010111 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:03:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hal.chatalicious.net ([62.163.251.163]) by amsfep20-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with SMTP id <20040904180353.TTQR8513.amsfep20-int.chello.nl@hal.chatalicious.net>; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:03:53 +0200 Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:06:10 +0200 From: Taco Hoekwater To: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de Cc: metafont@ens.fr Subject: Re: [metafont] [metapost] inclusion (input) of files Message-Id: <20040904200610.2828726b.taco@elvenkind.com> In-Reply-To: <200409042151.53304.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> References: <200409042151.53304.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> Organization: Elvenkind X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:03:54 +0200 (CEST) Hi, On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:51:53 +0200 Matthias Pospiech wrote: > ... /usr/bin/makempx: Command failed: latex mpxerr.tex; see mpxerr.log Usually the mpxerr.log will contain a simple (or at least comprehensible) error message, so you should check and see if it helps. Greetings, Taco From - Sat Sep 4 20:14:01 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with SMTP id i84IDwda013974 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 20:13:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 18835 invoked by uid 65534); 4 Sep 2004 18:13:57 -0000 Received: from pD9FF8853.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO matthias) (217.255.136.83) by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 04 Sep 2004 20:13:57 +0200 X-Authenticated: #2798017 From: Matthias Pospiech Reply-To: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: Re: [metafont] [metapost] inclusion (input) of files Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:14:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <200409042151.53304.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> <20040904200610.2828726b.taco@elvenkind.com> In-Reply-To: <20040904200610.2828726b.taco@elvenkind.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409042214.46422.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sat, 04 Sep 2004 20:13:58 +0200 (CEST) Am Samstag, 4. September 2004 20:06 schrieben Sie: > Hi, > > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 21:51:53 +0200 > > Matthias Pospiech wrote: > > ... /usr/bin/makempx: Command failed: latex mpxerr.tex; see mpxerr.log > > Usually the mpxerr.log will contain a simple (or at least comprehensible) > error message, so you should check and see if it helps. > This is the logfile: ---------------------------------- his is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (format=latex 2004.2.16) 4 SEP 2004 21:31 **mpx4537.tex (./mpx4537.tex LaTeX2e <2001/06/01> Babel and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b asque, italian, portuges, russian, spanish, nohyphenation, loaded. Missing character: There is no t in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no r in font nullfont! Missing character: There is no i in font nullfont! [...] Missing character: There is no u in font nullfont! [1] ! I can't find file `mpx4537.aux'. \enddocument ...makeatletter \input \jobname .aux \fi \@dofilelist \ifdim \f... l.5 \end{document} Please type another input file name ! Emergency stop. \enddocument ...makeatletter \input \jobname .aux \fi \@dofilelist \ifdim \f... l.5 \end{document} *** (job aborted, file error in nonstop mode) ---------------------------------- what is so confusion is the fact that the same code in just one file works fine. So I assume that something strange happens just because I use the input command. Matthais -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Pospiech Schneiderberg 28, 30167 Hannover email: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de Web: http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/ ICQ: 60941314 Tel: +49 (0)511-3534318 Mobil: +49 (0)170-5586781 --------------------------------------------------------------- From - Sun Sep 5 09:44:58 2004 Return-Path: Received: from amsfep19-int.chello.nl (amsfep19-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.20]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i857isLZ070254 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:44:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hal.chatalicious.net ([62.163.251.163]) by amsfep19-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.00.05.02 201-2115-109-103-20031105) with SMTP id <20040905074454.TIKI20663.amsfep19-int.chello.nl@hal.chatalicious.net>; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:44:54 +0200 Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 09:47:14 +0200 From: Taco Hoekwater To: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de Cc: metafont@ens.fr Subject: Re: [metafont] [metapost] inclusion (input) of files Message-Id: <20040905094714.1ca94d51.taco@elvenkind.com> In-Reply-To: <200409042214.46422.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> References: <200409042151.53304.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> <20040904200610.2828726b.taco@elvenkind.com> <200409042214.46422.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> Organization: Elvenkind X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sun, 05 Sep 2004 09:44:55 +0200 (CEST) On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:14:46 +0200 Matthias Pospiech wrote: > ! I can't find file `mpx4537.aux'. > > what is so confusion is the fact that the same code in just one file > works fine. So I assume that something strange happens just because I use the > input command. LaTeX stops because it cannot find the .aux file belonging to the (generated) LaTeX file mpx4537.tex. But I don't know when that situation would occur. Some kind of permission problem perhaps? I have not used LaTeX in years and do not have it installed at the moment, so I cannot help any further. Perhaps somebody else can. Good luck, Taco From - Sun Sep 5 14:50:43 2004 Return-Path: Received: from crufty.research.bell-labs.com (crufty.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.49]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i85CofA2025235 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 14:50:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from grubby.research.bell-labs.com (H-135-104-2-9.research.bell-labs.com [135.104.2.9]) by crufty.research.bell-labs.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i85CoZ1O057940 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:50:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com (nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com [135.104.8.38]) by grubby.research.bell-labs.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i85CoTdj065045 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:50:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i85CoTNE72252403 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:50:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from hobby@localhost) by nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i85CoTwL56143479 for metafont@ens.fr; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:50:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 08:50:29 -0400 (EDT) From: John Hobby Message-Id: <200409051250.i85CoTwL56143479@nslocum.cs.bell-labs.com> To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: Re: [metafont] [metapost] inclusion (input) of files X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sun, 05 Sep 2004 14:50:42 +0200 (CEST) Taco Hoekwater writes > On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:14:46 +0200 > Matthias Pospiech wrote: > > > ! I can't find file `mpx4537.aux'. > > > > what is so confusion is the fact that the same code in just one file > > works fine. So I assume that something strange happens just because I use the > > input command. > > LaTeX stops because it cannot find the .aux file belonging to the > (generated) LaTeX file mpx4537.tex. But I don't know when that > situation would occur. Some kind of permission problem perhaps? I have diagnosed this problem but neglected to send email to the whole list. If the error messages in mpxerr.log seem strange, look at mpxerr.tex. Except for a change in the file name, that is exactly the input that latex saw when generated the funny .log file. Matthias showed me the mpxerr.tex file, and it the \documentclass and \begin{document} lines were missing. MetaPost does not insert those automatically since it cannot know what packages and such you want to use. They were supposed to be in a verbatimtex...etex at the start of the .mp file. That is probably what was wrong. P.S. It is normal for mpxerr.tex to contain calls to \shipout. That is a strange thing to do in a latex file, but it is necessary in order to produce output that can be converted into a .mpx file. - John Hobby From - Sun Sep 5 17:40:27 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mwinf0407.wanadoo.fr (smtp4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i85FeO2U005006 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:40:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0407.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with SMTP id 4C32F180007F for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:40:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (AStrasbourg-208-1-1-55.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.156.55]) by mwinf0407.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1783D18000AC for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:40:24 +0200 (CEST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: metafont@ens.fr From: jcm Subject: Problem with suffix Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 17:40:21 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sun, 05 Sep 2004 17:40:24 +0200 (CEST) Hi, I define a macro, named edge, which draw a vertice between two points : vardef edge(suffix a,b) = ... ...(drawing routines) ... enddef; a and b are suffixes created with circleit. This routines is also using bpath. I would like to define a macro that uses the macro edge, but for several points. Naming chain this new macro, chain(a,b,c) should call edge(a,b) and edge(b,c). I have problem with suffix parameters. I try this using forsuffixes and a tabular, without result as I can't store suffix in a tabular. Is this possible ? Thanks. Jean-Claude From - Sun Sep 5 23:19:40 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mail2.cc.huji.ac.il (real-outmail.cc.huji.ac.il [132.64.1.18]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i85LJZ12065698 for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 23:19:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.cc.huji.ac.il (Postfix) with ESMTP id B394CAC147; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:19:34 +0300 (IDT) Received: from mail2.cc.huji.ac.il (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (VaMailArmor-2.0.1.16) id 20295-337DD52B; Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:19:34 +0300 Received: by mail2.cc.huji.ac.il (Postfix, from userid 31998) id A6DAFAC14C; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:19:34 +0300 (IDT) Received: from VMS.HUJI.AC.IL (vms.huji.ac.il [128.139.4.12]) by mail2.cc.huji.ac.il (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CF44AC147 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:19:34 +0300 (IDT) Received: by HUJIVMS via BMAIL (HUyMail-V7f2); Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:19:34 +0200 Received: by HUJIVMS via BMAIL (HUyMail-V7f2); Mon, 06 Sep 2004 00:19:28 +0200 Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 0:19 +0200 Message-id: <06092004001927@HUJIVMS> From: To: metafont@ens.fr Cc: Michael Maschler MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: Text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: unable to make mbx file X-Spam-Level: X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:19:35 +0200 (CEST) Hello, Following a request of my friend I made the file: %verbatimtex %\input amstex etex %input boxes beginfig(1); z0=(0,0); draw(0,0); label.rt(btex $\frac{1}{2}$ etex.z0); endfig; end Upon mp'ing the file, latexing and dvi2pdf I got a beautiful fibure of 1/2. My friend took my file and tried doing the same but failed immediately: The error message after "mp foo.mp" read: "unable to make mpx file". My winedt package was generated from the same CD that he used. What is the reason of the error in his computer and how can he overcome it and get fractions in his figure? Michael From - Mon Sep 6 09:10:19 2004 Return-Path: Received: from avs3.arnes.si (avs3.arnes.si [193.2.1.68]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i8673utL093991 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:03:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (avs3.arnes.si [193.2.1.68]) by avs3.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016441D79E0; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:03:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from avs3.arnes.si ([193.2.1.68]) by localhost (avs3.arnes.si [193.2.1.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 40614-09; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:03:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from email.si (ar20-7i.dial-up.arnes.si [194.249.10.199]) by avs3.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611A81D79B3; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:03:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <413C0BD4.90003@email.si> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:03:48 +0200 From: Mojca Miklavec User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5-4.75 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl-SI; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: sl, en, en-us, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: metafont@ens.fr Cc: MASCHLER@vms.HUJI.AC.IL Subject: Re: [metafont] unable to make mbx file References: <06092004001927@HUJIVMS> In-Reply-To: <06092004001927@HUJIVMS> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at arnes.si X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:03:56 +0200 (CEST) MASCHLER@vms.HUJI.AC.IL wrote: > Following a request of my friend I made the file: > %verbatimtex > %\input amstex etex > %input boxes > beginfig(1); > z0=(0,0); > draw(0,0); > label.rt(btex $\frac{1}{2}$ etex.z0); > endfig; > end 1. try to replace label.rt(btex $\frac{1}{2}$ etex.z0); with label.rt(btex ${1\over 2}$ etex, z0); 2. it is possible to use mp --tex=LATEX filename but it doesn't work on my computer either 3. you can also write verbatimtex \def\frac#1#2{{#1\over#2}} etex; at the beginning of the file, so that you can use \frac as usually > Upon mp'ing the file, latexing and dvi2pdf I got a beautiful > fibure of 1/2. Just a remark: once you have more than one "btex ... etex" constructs in your file, it can be that some of them will be missing in .pdf (I also don't know the reason for the strange behaviour). So a safer way to go is to use "mptopdf" (it's a part of ConTeXt package I think; and if you really need eps instead of pdf pictures just install "xpdf", put it into PATH and execute "pdftops -eps filename"). > My friend took my file and tried doing the same but failed immediately: > The error message after "mp foo.mp" read: "unable to make mpx file". > > My winedt package was generated from the same CD that he used. The problem is NOT in winedt for sure - the difference has to be in LaTeX distribution/installation, but I'm not an expert in that. > What is the reason of the error in his computer and how can he overcome > it and get fractions in his figure? > > Michael Mojca Miklavec From - Mon Sep 6 09:22:00 2004 Return-Path: Received: from avs3.arnes.si (avs3.arnes.si [193.2.1.68]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i867Lrnu006908 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:21:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (avs3.arnes.si [193.2.1.68]) by avs3.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CCB1D795B for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:21:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from avs3.arnes.si ([193.2.1.68]) by localhost (avs3.arnes.si [193.2.1.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 45342-01 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:21:52 +0200 (CEST) Received: from email.si (ar20-7i.dial-up.arnes.si [194.249.10.199]) by avs3.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB071D79B0 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:21:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <413C1009.30306@email.si> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:21:45 +0200 From: Mojca Miklavec User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5-4.75 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl-SI; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: sl, en, en-us, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: Re: [metafont] unable to make mbx file References: <06092004001927@HUJIVMS> <413C0BD4.90003@email.si> In-Reply-To: <413C0BD4.90003@email.si> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at arnes.si X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:21:53 +0200 (CEST) >> Following a request of my friend I made the file: >> %verbatimtex >> %\input amstex etex >> %input boxes >> beginfig(1); >> z0=(0,0); >> draw(0,0); >> label.rt(btex $\frac{1}{2}$ etex.z0); >> endfig; >> end > 2. it is possible to use > mp --tex=LATEX filename > but it doesn't work on my computer either Excuse me, I forgot to include the header - this one should work fine with mp --tex=LATEX filename as well. verbatimtex \documentclass{article} \begin{document} etex; beginfig(1); z0=(0,0); draw z0; label.rt(btex $\frac{1}{2}$ etex, z0); endfig; end. verbatimtex \end{document} etex; Mojca From - Fri Sep 10 21:02:22 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with SMTP id i8AJ2I6H014022 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:02:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 24298 invoked by uid 65534); 10 Sep 2004 19:02:18 -0000 Received: from pD9E3402D.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO matthias) (217.227.64.45) by mail.gmx.net (mp015) with SMTP; 10 Sep 2004 21:02:18 +0200 X-Authenticated: #2798017 From: Matthias Pospiech Reply-To: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: How to add two strings ? Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:02:27 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200409102302.28059.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:02:19 +0200 (CEST) In metapost I use latexmp with its function textext("..."). This inserted string is in my files always "\scriptsize"+ 'stringvariable' How can I implement a function similar to textext, lets say: printtex that adds two strings, so that the result can be put by a macro inside textext() ? def printtext(text t)= outputtext := "\scriptsize" + t; textext(outputtext); enddef; does not work. It results in the error: ! Not implemented: (string)+(string). Matthias --------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Pospiech Schneiderberg 28, 30167 Hannover email: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de Web: http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/ ICQ: 60941314 Tel: +49 (0)511-3534318 Mobil: +49 (0)170-5586781 --------------------------------------------------------------- From - Fri Sep 10 23:00:24 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mailer.gwdg.de (mailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.26]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i8AL0JfY073143 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:00:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailbox.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.21] helo=web-mailer.gwdg.de) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1C5sVG-0005SL-66; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:00:19 +0200 Received: from 134.76.139.102 (SquirrelMail authenticated user lfinsto1); by web-mailer.gwdg.de with HTTP; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:00:18 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <1104.134.76.139.102.1094850018.squirrel@134.76.139.102> In-Reply-To: <200409102302.28059.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> References: <200409102302.28059.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:00:18 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: [metafont] How to add two strings ? From: lfinsto1@gwdg.de To: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de Cc: metafont@ens.fr User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a X-Mailer: SquirrelMail/1.4.3a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Spam-Level: / X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.2 points, 6.0 required 0.2 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:00:19 +0200 (CEST) > def printtext(text t)= > outputtext := "\scriptsize" + t; > textext(outputtext); > enddef; > > does not work. It results in the error: > ! Not implemented: (string)+(string). > Strings are concatenated using the `&' operator. See _The METAFONTbook_, p. 187 (I don't have my MP manual handy). Laurence From - Sat Sep 18 23:20:25 2004 Return-Path: Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl (nl-ams-slo-l4-01-pip-6.chellonetwork.com [213.46.243.23]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i8ILKMCt006251 for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:20:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hal.chatalicious.net ([62.163.251.163]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with SMTP id <20040918212022.WJMJ15189.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@hal.chatalicious.net> for ; Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:20:22 +0200 Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:23:35 +0200 From: Taco Hoekwater To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: metapost mailing list Message-Id: <20040918232335.38dbcff3.taco@elvenkind.com> Organization: Elvenkind X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sat, 18 Sep 2004 23:20:23 +0200 (CEST) (resent by Taco Hoekwater, for Karl Berry) Greetings, In the past, MetaPost discussion has taken place on this (metafont) list, among other places. That's fine, but at the request of various people, I've set up a metapost-specific list, metapost@tug.org. You can subscribe at http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/metapost if you like. FWIW, we also updated the http://tug.org/metapost.html page with assorted links and articles. Corrections or suggestions welcome. Happy (font|picture)making, karl From - Sun Sep 19 10:05:46 2004 Return-Path: Received: from spoolo1.tiscali.be (spoolo1.tiscali.be [62.235.13.172]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i8J85htg093832 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:05:43 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [83.134.195.220] (helo=adelmotte.largevision.com) by spoolo1.tiscali.be with esmtp (Tiscali.be http://www.tiscali.be) id 1C8wha-00045N-BA for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:05:42 +0200 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20040919100007.00a850f0@pop3.pro.tiscali.be> X-Sender: tpm17153@pop3.pro.tiscali.be X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:01:51 +0200 To: liste metafont From: Alain Delmotte Subject: Re: [metafont] metapost mailing list In-Reply-To: <20040918232335.38dbcff3.taco@elvenkind.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:05:43 +0200 (CEST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nef.ens.fr id i8J85htg093832 Hi! This is a step backward. I think there is not enough people to create two lists; further metapost is a child of metafont and could benefit from it. Alain Delmotte A 23:23 18/09/2004 +0200, vous avez écrit : >(resent by Taco Hoekwater, for Karl Berry) > >Greetings, > >In the past, MetaPost discussion has taken place on this (metafont) >list, among other places. That's fine, but at the request of various >people, I've set up a metapost-specific list, metapost@tug.org. You can >subscribe at http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/metapost if you like. > >FWIW, we also updated the http://tug.org/metapost.html page with >assorted links and articles. Corrections or suggestions welcome. > >Happy (font|picture)making, >karl avenue du Marathon, 6 B 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgique tél./fax 00 (32) 10 45 44 44 tél. privé 00 (32) 10 45 11 92 From - Sun Sep 19 11:15:25 2004 Return-Path: Received: from amsfep18-int.chello.nl (amsfep18-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.13]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id i8J9FLxZ027748 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:15:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hal.chatalicious.net ([62.163.251.163]) by amsfep18-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.6.01.03.04 201-2131-111-106-20040729) with SMTP id <20040919091521.JBEZ14366.amsfep18-int.chello.nl@hal.chatalicious.net> for ; Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:15:21 +0200 Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:18:36 +0200 From: Taco Hoekwater To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: Re: [metafont] metapost mailing list Message-Id: <20040919111836.157e3ec9.taco@elvenkind.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20040919100007.00a850f0@pop3.pro.tiscali.be> References: <20040918232335.38dbcff3.taco@elvenkind.com> <5.0.2.1.2.20040919100007.00a850f0@pop3.pro.tiscali.be> Organization: Elvenkind X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Sun, 19 Sep 2004 11:15:22 +0200 (CEST) On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:01:51 +0200 Alain Delmotte wrote: > Hi! > > This is a step backward. In my world, progress is generally considered moving forward. Oh well, at least you agree that it *is* a step. Feel free to remain standing still, if that pleases you better. > I think there is not enough people to create two lists; The proportion of MF vs. MP interested people is now somewhere around one to every dozen. Judging from actual questions in the past couple of years, the ratio is probably even closer to 1 to 100 when talking about actual posts and programming effort. Fact is, most of the MetaPost related e-mail never reaches this list, because the subscriptions of quite some active people have become totally messed up, effectively banning those people from this list. There is no active maintainer for metafont@ens.fr to remedy their situation, at least none of us is aware of anybody who is visible enough to have a reachable e-mail address. Even so, I had to search quite hard to find posts that are truly related to MF, on this list. > further metapost is a child of metafont and could benefit from it. Kindly point me to some recent metafont developments that could benefit metapost, then. I'm aware of the fact that I am baiting you, but on the other hand, I will be genuinely interested if you do have something to report. Greetings, Taco From - Tue Sep 21 15:13:25 2004 Return-Path: Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by nef.ens.fr (8.12.11/1.01.28121999) with SMTP id i8LDDKYJ085769 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:13:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 30894 invoked by uid 65534); 21 Sep 2004 13:13:20 -0000 Received: from pD9E34B8F.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO matthias) (217.227.75.143) by mail.gmx.net (mp008) with SMTP; 21 Sep 2004 15:13:20 +0200 X-Authenticated: #2798017 From: Matthias Pospiech Reply-To: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de To: metafont@ens.fr Subject: [metapost] german Umlaute do not work with latexmp Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:13:41 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Message-Id: <200409211713.41645.matthias.pospiech@gmx.de> X-Greylist: Recipient e-mail whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.3.3 (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:13:20 +0200 (CEST) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by nef.ens.fr id i8LDDKYJ085769 I use german umlaute like äöü etc. For latexmp I use these settings: setupLaTeXMP( class="article", options="10pt", packages="babel[german],fontenc[T1],inputenc[latin1],helvet[scaled=0.8]", preamble="\renewcommand*{\rmdefault}{\sfdefault}\newcommand{\textsize} {\small}" ) with \inputenc and \fontenc the umlaute should not be a problem. However all the umlaute disapperar in the output :-( To add them via "a, "o is not possible - so I need another solution.. Any idea what the reason is ? Matthias -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Pospiech Schneiderberg 28, 30167 Hannover email: matthias.pospiech@gmx.de Web: http://www.matthiaspospiech.de/ ICQ: 60941314 Tel: +49 (0)511-3534318 Mobil: +49 (0)170-5586781 ---------------------------------------------------------------