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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: MetaFont and X11
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.074414.9816@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 7 Apr 91 07:44:14 GMT
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Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
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>It seems that when I built MetaFont I included X11 window support.  The
>dvips program will automagically run MetaFont when it discovers that
>a specific magnification of a font is missing.  This is wonderful, except
>that I do not want or need to see MetaFont building each character.  Is
>there a way to tell MetaFont to not use X11?  Would just unsetting the
>DISPLAY environment variable do the trick?

Edit MakeTeXPK to invoke mf in \batchmode.