Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2021 10:29:57 +0100 From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: script problem Message-ID: <023D2B0D-3272-45B6-BA07-81C8E082BB5B@glasgow.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <CAJ5UdcOAxbq62srJ5Zh=Nfkfo30=NsVst9M2B%2BPcjFV-pkHibQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ5UdcOfTc3PCySb81JiVgB2WV7jZqn4CueM8tAfeFz51S2f1g@mail.gmail.com> <2144122E-56DF-4391-91CD-75F2F2B6AA25@glasgow.ac.uk> <CAJ5UdcOAxbq62srJ5Zh=Nfkfo30=NsVst9M2B%2BPcjFV-pkHibQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Antonio, hello.
On 22 Apr 2021, at 0:56, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> The book gets created, but the file torus.mp fails to build. The m3D
> files, I have put the files m3D* on the same directory and the
> picins.sty.
> The question is how the metapost files get processed by the script.
> Something changed because the script did run the metapost files and
> got
> their output and them latex'd the source files and it worked in
> FreeBSD 12
> but not in FreeBSD 13. I do not know what causes this?
>
> I had to
> $ for i in *.mp ; TEX=latex mpost "$i": done;
I think that, in this case, you'd be better with
export TEX=latex
for f in fig*.mp; do mpost $f; done
That is, only process the fig*.mp files, and skip the torus.mp file,
which appears to be the only one which uses the m3D macros.
(setting TEX is for the benefit of mpost, as it specifies the language
used for the btex...etex calls within the .mp files.)
If, after that, I do
latex calc3book
then I have to ignore the error message about the missing torus.0 (you
could probably comment this call out in the sources), and I get an error
about a missing \bf command
I can add \let\bf\relax to the top of calc3book.tex (after the
\documentclass line), and comment out the includegraphics{torus.0} from
calcbook-chapter4.tex
latex calc3book
bibtex calc3book
latex calc3book.tex
makeindex -s myindex.ist -o calc3book.ind calc3book.idx
makeindex calc3book.nlo -s nomencl.ist -o calc3book.nls
latex calc3book.tex
dvips -j0 -t letter -Pps -G0 -z calc3book.dvi -o
ps2pdf14 -dALLOWPSTRANSPARENCY -dMaxSubsetPct=100
-dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer
calc3book.ps
...then produces a PDF (which appears to be a decent-looking book, by
the way).
So the version problem you discovered is that the current TeXLive mpost
is too new for the m3D macros, and the current version of scrbook is too
new for the document (which uses obsolete \bf). I think it would be
useful for you to report both problems to the book's author, as well as
(apparent) success in using TeXLive 2021 to process the book.
Good luck!
Norman
--
Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk
SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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