<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 24 Dec 2023 at 16:07, Ben Frank <<a href="mailto:ben.frank@mail.de">ben.frank@mail.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Dear mailing list,<br>
<br>
consider the following code:<br>
<br>
```<br>
outputtemplate := "%j-%2c.mps";<br>
<br>
verbatimtex %&latex<br>
\documentclass{article}<br>
\begin{document}<br>
etex<br>
<br>
beginfig(1)<br>
label.lft(btex \textbf{J} etex,origin);<br>
endfig;<br>
<br>
end;<br>
```<br>
<br>
Why does it not compile when fed to mpost as is (because of the space <br>
before %&latex carrying into the output preventing its parsing as a <br>
format comment) but compile fine when the outputtemplate line is <br>
commented (i.e., the space seems to be gobbled as expected)?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>as the result of the compilation you should have some *mpx* files in the same folder -- what do they say ?</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>luigi</div><div> </div></div></div>