On Sat, Apr 10, 1999 at 10:47:23PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm trying to teach myself Metafont (using Debian 2.1, tetex from unstable; > same problem with stable tetex, though). According to the > documentation, mf can do "online graphics" when compiled "--with-x"; I > checked the debian/rules in the source package, and it is indeed > compiled this way. $TERM and $MFTERM are set to "rxvt" (no difference > when using xterm). Now I run mf interactively as follows: > > /home/stefan> mf > This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3beta6) > **\relax > > *drawdot (50,50); showit; end. > Transcript written on mfput.log. > /home/stefan> > > That should draw a dot at position (50,50) (wherever that is), but > I don't get any on-screen output. > > Any ideas anyone what's going wrong? I tried the same. It worked, once the TERM variable is exported. Nils -- Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time. To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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