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(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I am talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) --------------------------------------- Received: (at 295205-forwarded) by bugs.debian.org; 15 Feb 2005 13:23:07 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Feb 15 05:23:07 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from idmailgate1.unizh.ch [130.60.68.105] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 1 (Debian)) id 1D12fR-000553-00; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:23:05 -0800 Received: from alhambra.kuesterei.ch ([130.60.169.112]) by idmailgate1.unizh.ch (8.12.10/8.12.10/Debian-2) with ESMTP id j1FDN2QK013020; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:23:02 +0100 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=alhambra.kuesterei.ch) by alhambra.kuesterei.ch with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1D12ey-0005uw-00; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:22:36 +0100 To: Stefan Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Vojta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#295205: metapost figures in xdvi with tex text X-Attribution: fant X-Ehrenamt: http://www.langau.de From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (=?iso-8859-1?q?Frank_K=FCster?=) In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Stefan Ulrich's message of "Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:38:04 +0100") References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:22:35 +0100 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 X-Spam-Level: Stefan Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > Chris Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:00:03PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote: >>> Stefan Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>=20 >>> > There doesn't seem to be an easy way for Xdvi to detect that it's not >>> > a standalone PS file. (Paul, you know more about Postscript than I do >>> > - is the problem that the PS file doesn't define any fonts? Is this >>> > the way Metapost works? Does it work with dvips since the font will be >>> > already present in the `main' file?) > >> http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=3Dmpprologues implies >> that this is the case. > > Thanks for the FAQ pointer! The upshot seems to be that due to > encoding problems etc., quote from the FAQ: > > the only solution is to view the 'original' metapost output after > processing through LaTeX and dvips. > > > So it can't be done in xdvi either, and it seems we should go for > displaying bounding boxes instead - Paul? Thank you. I can't help here, I'm writing this mail simply to indicate in our BTS that this bug is worked upon. Regards, Frank --=20 Frank K=FCster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]