[Therion] Error 768

[cawa sorix]

Hi all,

2012/11/29 Wookey <wookey at wookware.org>:
> +++ Andrew Atkinson [2012-11-28 16:35 +0000]:
>
>> So when producing a pdf I get the Error 768, log attached, everything
>> else I do seems to work as normal
>>
>
> The erros seems to be that instead of getting (./mptextmp.mp)
> (./mptextmp.mp) (./mptextmp.mp)
>
> you get this:
>
> (./mptextmp.mp
>>> mptextmp.mp
>>> mptextmp.mpx
> ! Unable to make mpx file.
> l.2 btex
>          \mainfont 0 etex
> The two files given above are one of your source files
> and an auxiliary file I need to read to find out what your
> btex..etex blocks mean. If you don't know why I had trouble,
> try running it manually through MPtoTeX, TeX, and DVItoMP


> I did notice whilst investigating that thmpost.cxx is nothing but a
> massive const char * string defintion of the whole metapost file,
> which seems pretty crufty. This is presumably the very old bring
> 'inline' of the tex and metpost stuff to avoid issue with Windows
> people having files missing/not found. I would like to understand how
> this stuff works, for debug and also for considering whether it is
> worth undoing so that the files can be placed more normally/correctly
> in the Debian packaging.
>
> Wookey

I compiled 5.3.10 on 2 different debian :
debian wheezy/sid (powerpc) and debian squezze (i386) I have the error
768 on 2 machines... error log bellow :
The same therion files compile on windows version.

Do you fix the issue ? or do you have any track ?


####################### metapost log file ########################
This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.1.0)  16 DEC 2012 09:42
**data.mp
(mpost.mp (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/base/plain.mp
Preloading the plain mem file, version 1.004)) (./data.mp [4001] [4002] [4003]
[4004] [4005] [4006] [4007] [4008] [4009] [4010] [4011] [4012]
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
>> data.mp
>> data.mpx
! Unable to make mpx file.
l.7271 p_label(btex
                    \thlabel\thnormalsize \thfb\char80 \char49 \char52 \main...
The two files given above are one of your source files
and an auxiliary file I need to read to find out what your
btex..etex blocks mean. If you don't know why I had trouble,
try running it manually through MPtoTeX, TeX, and DVItoMP



Here is how much of MetaPost's memory you used:
 6013 strings using 122027 characters
 790012 bytes of node memory
 1329 symbolic tokens
 9i,75n,11p,158b,2f stack positions out of 16i,84n,12p,200b,4f27
output files written: data.1 .. data.4012


#################### end of metapost log file ####################
therion: error -- metapost exit code -- 768
writing xtherion file ... done

tks,
C.S