samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi) (09/25/89)
I was delighted to discover recently that when I run MetaFont on my Sun 3, while also running X, the showit command causes a separate xterm window to pop up, where the newly created font is displayed. Now I installed X, and I also installed TeX and MetaFont, yet I did not do anything explicitly to cause this to happen. Could somebody comment on how MetaFont talks to X? Where can I find documentation on the relationship between TeX/MetaFont and X? Thanks! -- Dominick Samperi -- Citicorp samperi@Citicorp.COM uunet!ccorp!samperi
ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) (09/26/89)
|I was delighted to discover recently that when I run MetaFont on |my Sun 3, while also running X, the showit command causes a separate |xterm window to pop up, where the newly created font is displayed. |Now I installed X, and I also installed TeX and MetaFont, yet I did |not do anything explicitly to cause this to happen. Could somebody |comment on how MetaFont talks to X? Where can I find documentation |on the relationship between TeX/MetaFont and X? Thanks! Yup, some kindly gremlins snuck it into the code when you went home after unloading the tape. :-) No, seriously, look at site.h. There is a #define for X10 or X11 support. Actually Unix MF has had a history of windowing support. The Pascal version had hooks to SunView. So it's not surprising X support has been added. It's probably as simple as a procedure hook to the MF command \showit.