[metapost] Metafun and TeXLive 2012

[John Kitzmiller]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 16-10-2012 23:10, Fabien Vignes-Tourneret wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> I am having a problem with Metafun. I am running mac os 10.7.5 and have
>> recently installed TeXLive 2012. If I run mptopdf on the following
>> test.mp :
>>
> >
> > ...
>
>
>>  MPtoPDF 1.4.1 : running 'mpost --mem=mpost   --tex=latex  test.mp'
>>> This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.1.0)
>>> (mpost.mp (/usr/local/texlive/2012/**texmf-dist/metapost/base/plain**.mp<http://plain.mp>
>>> Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.004)) (./test.mp
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/**texmf-dist/metapost/context/**base/metafun.mp
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/**texmf-dist/metapost/context/**
>>> base/metafun.mpii
>>> (/usr/local/texlive/2012/**texmf-dist/metapost/context/**
>>> base/mp-base.mpii
>>> Preloading the plain mem file, version 0.63
>>> ! Redundant equation.
>>> <to be read again>
>>>                     ;
>>> l.305 mm=2.83464;
>>>                         pt=0.99626;        dd=1.06601;      bp:=1;
>>> ?
>>> ! Emergency stop.
>>> <to be read again>
>>>                     ;
>>> l.305 mm=2.83464;
>>>                         pt=0.99626;        dd=1.06601;      bp:=1;
>>> Transcript written on test.log.
>>>
>>> MPtoPDF 1.4.1 : error while processing mp file
>>>
>>
>> If I suppress the \input metafun; line, I get
>>
>
> metafun loads plain to so that's why there is a clash
>
> you can try running with --metafun
>
> alternatively, if you're not too dependent on latex you can wrap the mp
> code in
>
> \startMPpage
> ...
> \stopMPpage
>
> and process that with the 'context' command. (In the latest context you
> can directly process mp files using the 'context' command.)
>
> Hans
>
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A second to Hans' suggestion: \startMPcode ... \stopMPcode in ConTeXt. It
puts the metafun tools at hand and gives pdf output straight away.
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