<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p>Hello,</p><p><br></p>
<p>I'm definitely new to MetaPost. I run the version that I got
with MikTex ver 2.7. I run it throug Crimson Editor. When I include
directives such as the one below (found in the MetaPost documentation
for version 1.206):</p>
<p> </p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></p>
<p>outputtemplate := "%j-%3c.mps";</p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br></p>
<p> </p>
<p>I get the following output message:</p>
<p> </p><p><br></p><p>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></p>
<p>>> outputtemplate<br>
>> "%j-%3c.mps"<br>
! Equation cannot be performed (numeric=string).<br>
<to be read again> <br>
;<br>
l.1 outputtemplate := "%j-%3c.mps";<br>
<br>
I'm sorry, but I don't know how to make such things equal.<br>
(See the two expressions just above the error message.)</p>
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<p>So, it seems that the manual is wrong because lists the variable outputtemplate as string when it is recognized as numeric by mpost. So, I found out that I was running version 1.005. So I decided to find the latest version, which is 1.206. I now run that version 1.206 but now I get the following message:</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>
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<p>---------- Capture Output ----------<br>
> "C:\MetaPost\mpost.exe" Prueba2.mp<br>
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these
directories:
c:/MetaPost;c:/;c:/;c:/MetaPost/share/texmf-local/web2c;c://share/texmf-local/web2c;c://share/texmf-local/web2c;c:/MetaPost/texmf-local/web2c;c://texmf-local/web2c;c://texmf-local/web2c;c:/MetaPost/share/texmf/web2c;c://share/texmf/web2c;c://share/texmf/web2c;c:/MetaPost/texmf/web2c;c://texmf/web2c;c://texmf/web2c.<br>
<br>
Sorry, I can't find the 'mpost' mem file; will try 'plain'.<br>
I can't find the 'plain' mem file!<br>
<br>
> Terminated with exit code 1.</p>
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<p> </p>So, I need help to understand what happens with the use of outputtemplate and how to make version 1.206 run normally. I get the same error even if I run it in console mode.<br><br>thanks a lot<br>Carlos.<br><br>PS: this is the test code I'm trying to run<br><br><br><br>outputtemplate := "%j-%3c.mps";<br>beginfig(1);<br> fill fullcircle scaled 5cm withcolor red;<br>endfig;<br>beginfig(2);<br> pair A, B, C;<br> A:=(0,0); B:=(1cm,0); C:=(0,1cm);<br> draw A--B--C--cycle;<br>endfig;<br>end<br><br>This is supposed to generate two files which names should be "fig-001.mps" and "fig-002.mps" according to the documentation for version 1.206<br></td></tr></table><br>
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