mpost --parse-first-line
Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.tex.tetex.beta |
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The --parse-first-line option has always been a bit problematic because it does not allow to change the engine. In the latest teTeX beta, everything except tex itself (and omega) is now based on pdfetex. This means that if the header of a metapost file looks like verbatimtex %&latex then tex is launched, but latex depends on pdfetex now. In my opinion the only reliable solution is to use the exec system call to run the required program. A quick fix would be to make etex the default engine in metapost, but this would not satisfy people who want to use an omega based engine. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:[email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------