This is a bit in flux.  Historically, you would override `show(io::IO, 
x::X)` (print calls show by default).  This still works.

You can implement more flexibility by overwriting writemime(io::IO, 
::MIME"foo/bar", x::X).  e.g. for text output you override it for 
text/plain (note that show calls currently writemime text/plain by 
default), and you can also implement e.g. text/html output or image/png 
output for rich display in something like IJulia.   

However, this is probably going to be re-organized somewhat in 0.5; 
see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14052  .... and it may be 
that in 0.5 the right thing to do will be to override print(io::IO, x::X), 
at least for plain-text output.

For now, I would override show for plain-text output and writemime for 
everything else.

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