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Re: Online Metafont graphics?



On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 02:10:57PM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote:
> I first tried it with tetex-bin 0.9.981113-2 (the slink/stable
> version), then got tetex-bin 0.9.990406-1 (from
> potato/unstable): no difference.
> 
> 	/home/stefan> echo  $DISPLAY $TERM $MFTERM
> 	:0.0 rxvt rxvt
> 
> I?m focussing now on trying to make it run in a plain xterm,
> with the unnecessary MFTERM (and COLORTERM, just to be paranoid)
> unset:
> 
> 	/home/stefan> echo $TERM $DISPLAY
> 	xterm :0.0
> 	/home/stefan> mf
> 	This is METAFONT, Version 2.7182 (Web2C 7.3)
> 	**\relax
> 
> 	*drawdot (20,20);
> 
>    	*showit;
> 
> 	mf: Window support for X was not compiled into this binary.
> 	mf: To do so, rerun configure --with-x, recompile, and reinstall.
> 	mf: (Or perhaps you just failed to specify the mode.)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This clearly shows, mf is not compiled with X support in. And in fact,
0.9.980706-1 appears to be the single version where X is compiled in. After
an upgrade to the current one in potato I get the same message.

You will need to ask the package maintainer or compile a mf for yourself.
Given the debian packaging it's not too difficult, but will require a fair
amount of disk space and patience, depending on your hardware.


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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