[metapost] Can not use boxes.mp -- capacity exceeded

[Steven Woody]

On 9/13/07, Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
>
>
> Steven Woody wrote:
> > it seemed my metapost can not work with boxes. if i use "input boxes",
> > metapost will definitely compain:
> >
> > (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp
> > (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp
> > (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp (boxes.mp
> > ! MetaPost capacity exceeded, sorry [text input levels=20].
> > l.7 input boxes
> >
> >
> > what's the hell going on? thanks.
>
> Is your test file itself called boxes.mp, by any chance?
>
> That would make metapost input the file itself (instead of
> the macro package)
>
> Best wishes,
> Taco
>
>
>

YES!  how can you be so smart!  thank you very much!


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woody

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