Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!sophist!goer From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: GUIs, Windowing packages: flexibility Message-ID: <5019@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 16 Aug 89 16:30:32 GMT Sender: news@tank.uchicago.edu Reply-To: goer@sophist.UUCP (Richard Goerwitz) Distribution: usa Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 14 Do any of the windowing packages known to run on, or designed for, Xenix have sufficient flexibility to permit either pro- portional spacing on screen or overstrikes? Most people on the face of the planet write either left-to- right or up-down, and in many cases their alphabets need to be proportionally spaced, or to have extra diacritics (Arabic is a good example of both). The only easy way to do compli- cated diacritics is to have an interface that knows how to print zero-width characters (i.e. to overstrike). -Richard L. Goerwitz goer@sophist.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer