[tex-eplain] eplain usepackage problems on Mac OS X and cygwin

[Dorai Sitaram]

Thanks, Oleg, for the comprehensive answer.  Everything works like a charm
now.

Dorai


> 
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 11:14:14AM -0400, Dorai Sitaram wrote:
> > Hmm, I thought an advantage of using \includegraphics was that you could
> > have all the conversions take place behind the scenes, with context's
> > \convertMPtoPDF for example.
> 
> If I remember correctly, the automatic conversion is only
> possible with MetaPost output files (.mps).  Since your EPS
> files seem to be MetaPost-generated, I think that this
> should do the trick:
> 
>   \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{}
> 
> As for arbitrary EPS, you need to load epstopdf.sty in
> addition to graphicx.sty.  This will cause the epstopdf
> script to be called behind the scenes for each .eps file you
> include.  Note however that you'll need eplain.tex from CVS
> to load it -- I've added the definitions required by
> epstopdf.sty after the 3.0 release.  You can get the CVS
> version from
> 
>   http://tug.org/eplain/src/eplain.tex
> 
> There is also a test file:
> 
>   http://tug.org/eplain/src/test/epstopdf.tex
> 
> which needs the EPS graphic:
> 
>   http://tug.org/eplain/src/test/example.eps
> 
> Also, make sure that the \write18 construct is enabled, so
> that external OS commands can be executed from the TeX code.
> You can turn it on by adding the command line switch:
> 
>   pdfetex --shell-escape file.tex
> 
> > The thing fails long before any commands from color.sty or
> > graphicx.sty are called.
> 
> This is a bug in the newer (but not the latest)
> supp-mis.tex.  Your version of supp-mis.tex distinguishes
> between plain TeX and LaTeX on the basis of \fmtname, and
> whenever \fmtname is not `plain' or `babel-plain',
> supp-mis.tex decides it is dealing with LaTeX.  Since Eplain
> redefines \fmtname to be `eplain', you end up executing the
> code intended for LaTeX.
> 
> I reported this to Hans Hagen and he added in the check for
> `eplain'.  The fixed supp-mis.tex is at
> 
>   http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/supp-mis.tex
> 
> You can however just use the following workaround.  Redefine
> \fmtname back to `plain' before including the `color'
> package:
> 
>   \input eplain
>   \def\fmtname{plain}% Work around the bug in supp-mis.tex
> 
>   \beginpackages
>     \usepackage{color}
>   \endpackages
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Oleg
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