Geoff Russell

Thanks John. I was a little concerned about breaking something else if I install a version of ghostscript well in advance of my distribution version. But went with 9.56.1 and "make install" works as does everything else I've checked. Very happy, many thanks.

P.S. asy fails to generate pdfs, with the same runtime error.

I'm running ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS x64 and built asymptote from source. make install installs the executable correctly and it runs, but it fails in the doc directory. cd doc && make man make[1]: Entering directory '/home/geoff/Downloads/asymptote-2.91/doc' ../asy -dir ../base -config "" -render=0 -h 2>&1 | grep -iv Asymptote > options ../asy -dir ../base -config "" -render=0 -f pdf -noprc join3.asy Error: /undefined in .setfillconstantalpha Operand stack: 1 Execution stack: %interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval--...

Thanks for your attention on this issue. In the weeks after I lodged that bug description, I rewrote my code to work quite differently and robustly ... and not to require nested pictures. Cheers, Geoff On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 7:35 AM Henri Menke hmenke@users.sourceforge.net wrote: status: open --> closed-wont-fix Comment: Nested tikzpictures are not supported. TikZ will now generate a warning if this is detected. [bugs:#425] https://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/425/ tikz transparency problem with background...

tikz transparency problem with background package

Many thanks ... and it is in the documentation if I'd spent more time looking :)

How can I reference a latex macro in a label? In metapost I'd put verbatimtex ...\def\xx{}...