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Bug#430976: marked as done (texlive-metapost: symbols don't appear when using metapost)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: texlive-metapost
Version: 2007-12
Severity: important

Hi.

I am trying to create a diagram for a text of mine using metapost.
Unfortunately, when I typeset the following file (having the environment
variable TEX=latex), I can't see all the symbols: the square does not
appear (its position is blank), while the triangle *does* appear!

For compiling the figure below, I use the following sequence of commands:

mpost metapost-fail
a2ping metapost.1
xpdf metapost.pdf

Oh, BTW, one thing that didn't occur with tetex's a2ping is the emission
of warnings (I just discovered that it is a Perl script).


Thank you very much for any help, Rogério Brito.

##################################
minimal input file

verbatimtex
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\begin{document}
etex

u = 2cm;

beginfig(1);
   z0 = (0, 0);
   z1 = (0, .5u);
   z2 = (0, u);

   z3 = (u, .25u);
   z4 = (u, .75u);

   draw z0 withpen pencircle scaled 4pt;
   draw z1 withpen pencircle scaled 4pt;
   draw z2 withpen pencircle scaled 4pt;
   draw z3 withpen pencircle scaled 4pt;
   draw z4 withpen pencircle scaled 4pt;

   drawarrow z2..z3;
   drawarrow z2..z4;
   drawarrow z1..z4;
   drawarrow z0..z3;

   label.lft("3", z0);
   label.lft("2", z1);
   label.lft("1", z2);

   label.rt(btex $\triangle$ etex, z3);
   label.rt(btex $\square$ etex, z4);
endfig;

end;

##################################
other files

######################################
 List of ls-R files

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 985 Jun 28 12:13 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Jun 19 07:43 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 28 12:00 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jun 28 12:00 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
######################################
 Config files
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 19 07:43 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf -> /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4992 Jun 28 12:13 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7093 Jun 28 12:13 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4789 Jun 28 12:13 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
######################################
 Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 0
######################################
 md5sums of texmf.d
bef756b4d7b325a1d8d1a515d51d9b55  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/04VARTEXFONTS.cnf
25bf3a257a0bedb5c67349c3eaff74af  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf
5f7f6652cc8b8071c9e4ea6ba9e9f0a1  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/15Plain.cnf
8a26468004b5ebc7ae9884740356c1d0  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf
ea33127256c6a9f37145ae5b16fdb80c  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/55Fonts.cnf
afccf1d3f87057411166a77c58e00bd1  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/65BibTeX.cnf
9da7c1c7b1eaf06f941af91f48a23068  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/75DviPS.cnf
e36faa13563bdb46303b91ab3f6ea638  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/85Misc.cnf
7e8f87acdeba48edac16d851c77b9e75  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/90TeXDoc.cnf
30f4f13357c2761ed01a6a15f28725a5  /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc5-1 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages texlive-metapost depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.5-9+b1   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libkpathsea4                  2007-12    TeX Live: path search library for 
ii  texlive-base                  2007-10    TeX Live: Essential programs and f
ii  texlive-common                2007-10    TeX Live: Base component

Versions of packages texlive-metapost recommends:
pn  feynmf                        <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.5.13     Debian configuration management sy
ii  ucf                           3.001      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages texlive-metapost is related to:
pn  tetex-base                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-bin                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  tetex-extra                   <none>     (no description available)
ii  tex-common                    1.8        Common infrastructure for using an

-- debconf information:
  tex-common/singleuser: false
  tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
  tex-common/check_texmf_missing:

-- 
Rogério Brito : rbrito@ime.usp.br : http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito
Homepage of the algorithms package : http://algorithms.berlios.de
Homepage on freshmeat:  http://freshmeat.net/projects/algorithms/

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Just for the context before I close this bug:

On Jun 28 2007, Rogério Brito wrote:
> On Jun 29 2007, Florent Rougon wrote:
> > pdfTeX is able (thanks to Hans Hagen) to include MetaPost output files.
> > You don't need (and shouldn't) convert them to PDF beforehand.
> 
> Thank you very much. I didn't know that I shouldn't convert them
> beforehand. I just assumed that they were regular Encapsulated
> Postscript files and that I could such conversions.
> 
> > Just give them the extension .mps and graphicx will do the rest.
> (...)
> 
> It works wonderfully. Thanks for the hint! Now, my workflow is quite
> simplified.
(...)

The problem of the symbol not appearing was that using plain Type 3
fonts caused the problem when I tried to use \square (which needs the
AMS symbols packages).

When I changed the fonts used to, say, fourier or mathpazo, everything
worked perfectly.

I think that Florent might not have seen the problem as, from what I
understand, he has lmodern fonts installed in his system.


Regards, Rogério Brito.

-- 
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