[metapost] latexmp problem

[Piotr Zielinski]

Are you viewing your ps file with ghostview? It might be the case that
ghostscript can't find proper math fonts.  Try enabling debugging in
ghostview, to find out more; also see if you have any errors if you
type "gs yourfile.ps" instead of "ghostview yourfile.ps".

Here are things some things that might help

1. Putting "prologues := 2;" at the beginning of your mp file

2. Setting

GS_LIB=$(dirname $(kpsewhich cmr10.pfb)):$(dirname $(kpsewhich lasy10.pfb)):

before invoking ghostview (note  the colon at the end).

Thanks,
Piotr

On 21/08/06, Denis Roegel <Denis.Roegel at loria.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having a small problem with a file generated with latexmp.
> The input file is:
>
> input latexmp;
> beginfig(1);
>   for i=1 upto 5:
>     label(textext("$i=" & (decimal i) & "$"),(0,10*i));
>   endfor
> endfig;
>
> end
>
> The problem I have is that I only get
>
> i
> i
> i
> i
> i 1
>
> when I include the file with latex+dvips:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> %\DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{}
> \includegraphics{test.1}
> \end{document}
>
> but I do get the correct result with pdflatex:
>
> i=5
> i=4
> i=3
> i=2
> i=1
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \begin{document}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{*}{mps}{*}{}
> \includegraphics{test.1}
> \end{document}
>
> In both cases the file test.1 is the same. Could anybody
> enlighten me on the cause of this problem?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Denis Roegel
>
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Piotr Zielinski, Research Associate
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