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<pre>Having said that, As far as I know, you do not need X11 support on Mac
OS X to have a look at your font. Use
pdftex testfont
to produce pdf output. But then again, I have not a lot of experience
with METAFONT, so I might not know what you are trying to do.</pre>
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<p><br>That only works for installed fonts, AFAIK, once one has gotten
>from the .mf definition to a .gf (generic font) and then derived .pk (packed
bitmap, the canonical TeX font type, or a Type 1 or TrueType---though those
usually come from the .mf unless you're using an auto-trace program).
<p>Nuisance to have to go through all the intermediate steps.
<p>(I've been looking for an interactive MetaFont setup myself before I
got too busy for anything---shouldn't even be answering this, but it's
close to my heart right now---will catch up on other e-mail (sorry Bruce!)
when I can :(
<p>I guess the best TeXShop native solution would be to set up a custom
format which calls MF to make a GF then use gftodvi and have TeXShop display
that (I did read the readme right that it'll display .dvi, right?).
<p>William
<p>--
<br>William Adams, publishing specialist
<br>ATLIS Graphics & Design / 717-731-6707 voice / 717-731-6708 fax
<br>Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.
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