[metapost] [tex-live] pretest: latexmp does not work anymore

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hi all,

I need a bit of help. Does anybody recall what the old pascal
metapost did if you gave it this input (file attached):

   $ mpost try.tmp

1.203/1.204 is absolutely wrong (it does not generate
the mpx file correctly) but it also generates try.tmp.log
and try.tmp.1

My question is: how I should handle filename extensions
like the above (and also after 'input' like in the example
below).

Best wishes,
Taco



Daniel Oehry wrote:
> latexmp does not work correctly anymore. The following example exits
> with an error:
> 
> input latexmp ;
> beginfig(1);
>   label(textext("test"),origin) ;
> endfig;
> 
> end
> 
> This is MetaPost, version 1.203 (kpathsea version 5.0.0)
> (./test.mp
> (/usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/metapost/latexmp/latexmp.mp)
> (./ltx-test.tmp
>>> ltx-test.mp
>>> ltx-test.mpx
> ! Unable to make mpx file.
> l.7 latexmp_picture[1]:= btex
>                               test etex ;
> Transcript written on test.log.
> 
> 
> I looked at this and found out that everything works as expected if I
> change the name of the temporary-file in "latexmp.mp" at line 21 from
> 
> "ltx-" & jobname & ".tmp" ;
> 
> to 
> 
> "ltx-" & jobname & ".mp" ;
> 
> This seems very strange to me. Should this be changed in latexmp.mp or
> is it an error in mpost?
> 
> Daniel

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