[XeTeX] Fwd: MetaPost with XeTeX

[Hans Hagen]

Dalyoung wrote:
> It is really a good news.
>
> I upgraded ConTeXt to 05-08 version using i-installer and create a  
> format file for XeTeX with
> texexec --make --xtx en.
>
>
> After that I tried the MP code using "texexec --xtx filename"
>
>   
>>> \starttext
>>> \startMPcode
>>>    fill fullcircle scaled 3cm withcolor red;
>>>    fill fullcirce scaled 3cm shifted (2cm,1cm) withcolor
>>> transparent(1,0.5,green);
>>> \stopMPcode
>>> \stoptext
>>>       
>
> But there is an error message as follows:
>
> TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
>
>                metapost : xetexmeta-mpgraph
>                  format : metafun
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5)
> (/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/natural.tcx)
> (xetexmeta-mpgraph.mp
>  >> ^^Mif
> ! Isolated expression.
> <to be read again>
>                     unknown
> l.4  ^^Mif unknown
>                     context_tool: input mp-tool;
>
> What is wrong in my process? Thank you for reading.
>   
first of all, there is a typo

  fill fullcirce scaled 3cm shifted (2cm,1cm) withcolorit's

it's

  fullcircle

after fixing that it runs ok here

(btw, this is more a question for the context list than for the xetex list)

Hans



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