[metapost] Change in behavior of booleans with numbersystem=decimal

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Daniel H. Luecking <luecking at uark.edu>
wrote:

>  Dear Metapostals:
>
>
>  I don't know whether --numbersystem=decimal is considered
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> ready to use, but I have observed some odd behavior for the
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> following file:
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>  %test.mp
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> show known (0,0,.5,.5);
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> show cmykcolor (0,0,.5,.5);
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> end
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>
>  The command
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>     mpost test
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> returns true and true, but the command
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>     mpost --numbersystem=decimal test
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> returns false and false. This is causing mfpic to fail when
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> the decimal numbersystem is used.
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>
>  The fact that these are cmykcolor values seems to be irrelevant.
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> I get similar behavior with pairs and paths. The boolean
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> "known X" simply seems to not work. Also the booleans
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> "cmykcolor X", "pair X" and "path X" (those are the only
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> ones I've tried so far).
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>
>  I'm using MetaPost, version 1.999 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX)
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> under windows 7.
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>
> Hm, I will see it asap. Thank you for the report.
-- 
luigi
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