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From: samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: MetaFont and X Windows
Keywords: MetaFont,X11,Windows
Message-ID: <251D4132.1DE7@marob.masa.com>
Date: 24 Sep 89 21:03:44 GMT
Organization: ESCC, New York City
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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
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