[OS X TeX] MetaPost Inclusion Error

Ethan zeus1024 at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jul 15 04:38:41 EDT 2006


Sorry about the many emails, this will be the last
one.

I did what Maarten suggested and removed the ConTeXt
updater from i-installer, and now, even when the
m-metapo package is included, things are fine. I have
no idea why it didn't work before.

Anyway, things for all the help!


--- Ethan <zeus1024 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Wendy McKay found that the package m-metapo causes
> the
> error (many thanks!). Not using that package allows
> my
> document to be typeset, I guess it was included
> originally because .mps pictures are used.
> 
> If it helps in any way, from the log file I get
> 
>
(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/latex/context/m-metapo.sty
> Package: m-metapo 2004/07/30 package wrapper for
> m-metapo.tex
> 
> which is similar to that on my Linux machine.
> 
> --- Ethan <zeus1024 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for the reply.
> > 
> > > Which context upgrade did you install: stable or
> > > beta? 
> > 
> > It looks like there is a newer version out just
> > yesterday, but unfortunately things are still the
> > same. ConTeXt.ii2.updatelog says "ConTeXt only",
> so
> > I
> > guess it's the stable version.
> > 
> > > You can remove  
> > > the upgrade by removing
> > > /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/tex/context/
> > > This will unmask the default (older) install in
> > > teTeX. Try that  
> > > again. 
> > 
> > Actually, I was previously another mailing list,
> and
> > somebody suggested installing the update and
> posting
> > on this list. I got the same errors without the
> > upgrade.
> > 
> > > Please report the issue on teh context mailing
> > list.
> > 
> > I will do that.
> > 
> > 
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