[metapost] bizarre interactions...

[Walt Burkhard]

Hello Dan and Karel,
Thanks for all your effort with this.    I too am using most 1.504 in
texlive 2011 running on MAC OS X 7.3.      I have
changed prologue to prologues := 3.   and still obtain this weird behavior.
    for now I will just use  shading  with color 0.8white. etc.

It is interesting that there seems to be no issue on mpost 1.212.

Walt

On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Dan Luecking <luecking at uark.edu> wrote:

> At 02:13 AM 4/7/2012, Karel wrote:
>
>> Walt Burkhard napsal(a):
>>
>>> Hello.
>>> I am trying to use the \mpattern  (my google mail program wants me to
>>> type only pattern!!)  in a very simple metapost program.   There seems to
>>> be strange things going on.  I have attached the metapost and tex programs
>>> here.
>>>  The presence of the pattern seems to spoil metapost's ability to use
>>> tex properly.
>>> Any ideas what is going on? or even better how to avoid this issue?
>>>
>>
>> I have compiled your metapost file and donot see any problem (mpost
>> 1.212).
>> Karel Horak
>>
>
> In my set-up (TeX Live, Windows 7, metapost 1.504) the
> first and third figures show Courier text instead of
> cmssdc10 and some characters misplaced. One assumes that
> this is because mpattern redefines /fshow (a standard trick
> for introducing PS commands for which Metapost doesn't have
> an interface). The use of Courier is a Ghostscript default
> for an unknown font. If I ask GSview to show me Ghostscript's
> messages, I see many complaints of unknown fonts.
>
> I also get error messages from "pdftex mpsproof ttt.1",
> presumably because this command ultimately calls on
> supp-pdf.tex to parse the file ttt.1 directly and that file
> no longer contains standard metapost postscript.
>
> It seems to me that I remember ConTeXt having a way to
> permit patterns in metapost output, and that supp-pdf
> was written to recognize those methods, but I don't know
> any details.
>
> I have often created pattern fills, but I do it by
> writing a loop that draws some basic figure shifted to
> enough places to cover the boundingbox of a closed curve,
> then clipping the resulting picture to that curve.
>
> Dan
>
> Daniel H. Luecking
> Department of Mathematical Sciences
> Fayetteville, Arkansas
> http://www-cs-faculty.**stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html<http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/iaq.html>
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