[metapost] How to make winedt recognise metapost

[Michael Maschler]

HI,

 I installed WinEdt5 containing Miktex 2.4 in a computer. Almost  everything
went well, except that:

When I pressed mp foo.mp it created an empty foo.1, so I could not
 proceed in getting the figure.

  The log report said: Emergency stop
  Endfig -> scantokens.extra_endfig: shipit:
                                                             endgroup

  I am not used to the options provided by WinEdt team and I could not see
 from the Wizard how to proceed.

I had a similar problem in a different computer and I succeeded to overcome
it
by doing two things:

1.
In some configuration file, whose name I do not remember, I added
"assign" to  GS version 8.11 (because that filed called assign GS to an
earlier
version).

2.
After that I pressed  some kind of update  taken from somewhere in  the
Wizard.

I do not know why that worked, but  it did.  Can you advise  and tell me
the name of the metapost file in which "assign"  to GS  is  stated?

Can you tell me which "update" forces winedt to recognize meatpost?

Let me add that in the computer that works, I can only process the metapost
file via the path:  mp to foo.ps -> TeX using  epsf -> dvi to ps -> dvi to
pdf.
Using Tex to pdf directly, or dvi 2 pdf does not work.  Obviously something
is wrong in my
installation.


Thanks,

 Michael Maschler

 p.s.,
  I am using Ghostscript gs8.11 in C:\gs and Ghost view in
 c:\Ghostgum\gsview\gvwgs32.exe, version 4.5.








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