<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi all.<div><br></div><div>I'm trying to typeset a metapost figure containing latex labels. Compilation is not successful, and the message</div><div><br></div><div>! Unable to make mpx file.</div><div><br></div><div>is printed to the log file. Searching the web I found the following diagnosis and suggested solution in <a href="http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/024487.html">http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2007/024487.html</a>:</div><div><br></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; ">it turned out that the problem was </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; "><pre>format-related: latex.fmt had been written by pdfetex, but makempx was
calling tex instead of pdfetex. The solution was to add the line:
TEX=pdfetex
</pre></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; white-space: pre; ">to texmf.cnf"</span> </div><div><br></div><div>This seems to be my case, since the mpxerr.log specifies</div><div><br></div><div>"This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.1415926-1.40.9 (Web2C 7.5.7) (format=etex 2009.7.25)"</div><div><br></div><div>I've located several texmf.cnf files in my system, but the one in web2c states that it should not be modified, instead one should</div><div><br></div><div>"% add your custom settings to /some/path/to/texlive/2008/texmf.cnf"</div><div><br></div><div>Alas, the system does not allow me to edit this file. Any ideas?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Margarida</div></body></html>