mpost not working

[Emmanuel Hainry]

Dear Alejandro,

mpost (metapost) is part of the tex distribution you have. It is now
usually texlive. Your problem sometimes occur, but I don't understand
exactly why. It seems not to take into account the '%&latex' line that
you should have put in your mp file to tell metapost to use tex with the
latex format. To workaround it, you can try to set latex in your TEX
environment variable:

TEX=latex mpost mismatch0.0001.mp

Best,

Emmanuel


Citando Alejandro Aragon :
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to use the mpost command to create some pictures but it's  
> giving me this message:
>
> aaragon@~/Desktop/TeX/trunk/gnuplot/inclusion$mpost mismatch0.0001.mp
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.993 (Web2C 7.5.6)
> (Fatal mem file error; I'm stymied)
>
> I heard somewhere that this program depends on the tetex installation,  
> but I'm not sure. I tried to install it but when activating it I get
>
> aaragon@~/Desktop/gfem TeX/trunk/gnuplot/inclusion$sudo port install  
> tetex
> --->  Activating teTeX 3.0_5
> Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: /opt/local/ 
> bin/a2ping is being used by the active texlive_base port.  Please  
> deactivate this port first, or use the -f flag to force the activation.
> Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
>
> I'm not sure whether the mpost is part of the teTex distribution or not. 
> Does anyone knows how to solve this problem?
>
> Thank you all,
>
> aa
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