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

luigi scarso luigi.scarso at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 00:29:34 CEST 2015


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