[metapost] Problem with generating EPS from MetaFont source

luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 13:28:18 CET 2010


On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
> On 12/04/2010 02:12 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>> The example doesn't compile with
>> MetaPost, version 1.503 (kpathsea version 6.0.0)
>> Log says
>
>> ! Attempt to close the bottom level file!.
>
> This is easily fixable: when you use mpost 1.503, you also need to use
> the mfplain.mp that comes from mpost 1.503's distribution (or add 'dump'
> at the end of the file you have on disk already).
yes, sorry for the noise. Still lots to learn.

> For me, it runs past this point (but then it segfaults at finish,
> which is a different, totally unrelated bug).
true
-- 
luigi


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