Re: METAFONT

[Richard Cobbe <cobbe@directlink.net>]

Lo, on Sunday, June 3, Robin Gerard did write:

> 
> 
>  hello,
>  I tried to use METAFONT and when I did
>  mf dessinmf.mf I got this message :
>       proofrulethickness .05u
>  (1) mf: Window support for X was not compiled 
>           into this binary
>  (2) mf: to do so, rerun configure --with-x, 
>           recompile and reinstall
>  (3) mf: (or perhaps you just failed to specify 
>           the mode).
>  Could someone who knows METAFONT tell me 
>  if I must do number (1) or number (2) ?

step #2 is how you accomplish #1, although as another poster suggested,
just run mfw instead of mf.

Richard