[metapost] outputtemplate

[Dan&Jan Luecking]

At 03:03 AM 9/6/2009, you wrote:

>Hi Boris,
>
>Birch wrote:
>>Please tell me how to make mpost operate on the internal variable rather than
>>evaluating the expression %j - %c (or is it %j * %c).
>
>I do not know what you were doing exactly because you did not post
>an example file, but the following runs fine for me:
>
>   outputtemplate := "%j-or.%c.mps";
>   beginfig(1);
>   draw fullcircle;
>   endfig;
>   end.
>
>
>You have to compare this with your own file to find the error cause.

Perhaps a missing semicolon on the previous line?

Dan

Dan Luecking
Fayetteville, Arkansas