[metapost] Problem with metafun

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Mar 5 10:31:00 CET 2012


On 3-3-2012 02:19, Franck Pastor wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I have run into a strange problem with MetaPost and Metafun recently. Here is a complete minimal example:
>
> beginfig(1);
> 	label("O", origin);
> endfig;
>
> beginfig(2);
> 	label(btex O etex, origin);
> endfig;
>
> end;
>
> It works flawlessly with standard MetaPost. But if I use the metafun format with texexec as TeX engine, using the following command
>
> mpost -mem=metafun -tex="texexec --dvi" bug-metafun.mp
>
> (bug-metafun.mp is the name I've given to this file), something weird happens: the result is as expected, but the log file is enormous (nearly 1 Mo, see the joined file…), containing tons of bizarre messages abount duplicated fontmaps… No idea about what it means.
>
> Is this a known problem?

Each graphic loads the same map file:

  [1{psfonts.map}] [2{psfonts.map

so apart from it being anoying you just ignore the log. I have no clue 
why the map is loaded multiple times (I never have such huge map files 
if I have them at all).



Hans

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