[metapost] MetaPost 1.001 announcement

[L. Nobre G.]

On 15/11/2007, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Nobre,
>
> > 1) It is about time to update the file "INSTALL". I use a Debian
> > GNU/Linux system with TeX-Live 2007, so I run the script "build.linux"
> > to compile the MetaPost source. This script creates a "native"
> > directory containing all the necessary executables and there is no
> > "mp.pool" anymore. When copying the executables to
> > "texlive/2007/bin/i386-linux/" (or similar) one should remember to
> > "chown root:staff *"
>
> Would you like to volunteer for that?

Yes, I volunteer for the "linux" part, only.

> > 2) MetaPost programs starting with
> >
> >    verbatimtex
> >    \documentclass{article}
> >    \usepackage{amsmath}
> >    \usepackage{amssymb}
> >    \usepackage{mathptm}
> >    \begin{document}
> >    etex;
> >
> >    defaultfont := "cmr12";
> >    defaultscale := 12pt /fontsize defaultfont;
> >
> > are now broken when using "export TEX=latex".
>
> I hope Hartmut has time to look into this, as I don't use latex, but
> what exactly is the problem?

I apologize for the inconvenience
because
the problem I reported, vanished...


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-- 
L. Nobre G. - http://burocracia.blogspot.com/
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