[metapost] Bug ?

Christophe Poulain christophe.poulain at melusine.eu.org
Tue Jul 21 20:54:44 CEST 2009


Le Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:58:57 +0200,
Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> a écrit :

> Pétiard François wrote:
> >>> why Metapost search to compile the fig number 2 and make an error
> >>> (error who is true because the command \textgreek is unknown)
> >>
> >> If I understand you correctly you want metapost to ignore the
> >> latex error that your input causes? Why would that make sense?
> >> If latex fails, then your figure is broken?
> > 
> > If I understand Christophe, the question is : "why MetaPost doesn't
> > stop at the command end and try to compile the fig 2 ?"
> 
> Ah. Because all the btex.. etex label processing for the whole file 
> takes place before anything else happens (otherwise each of the labels
> would need its own private latex run).

OK, it's very clear :)
I've to do so :-)

> 
> Best wishes,
> Taco
> --
> http://tug.org/metapost/

Greetings,
Christophe Poulain.


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