[Therion] Error 768

cawa sorix cawa.sorix at gmail.com
Sun Dec 16 11:58:53 CET 2012


I fact I fixed the issue :o)

I ran therion on command line to catch the error message and I found
an older message from 2007 : [Therion] texlive support in therion

The fix is to add the line bellow on the /etc/therion.ini :
tex-fonts raw cmr10 cmti10 cmbx10 cmss10 cmssi10

C.S.


2012/12/16 cawa sorix <cawa.sorix at gmail.com>:
> 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



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