Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!bu-cs!polygen!peter
From: peter@polygen.uucp (Peter Ent)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Text processing software
Keywords: text processing
Message-ID: <526@redford.UUCP>
Date: 11 Aug 89 15:45:25 GMT
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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We are looking for some pretty powerful text processing software
to be used as a callable set of functions from X windows-based
programs.

We'd like the package to include a WYSIWYG input editor and 
software that handles it afterward (gettings its metrics,
displaying it, word-wrapping it, etc.).

A lot of what goes on in high-level interface programs nowadays
is full-blown word processing: it dialog boxes, when displaying
large amounts of text (scrollable areas), when asking for
paragraphs of input (such as in cells of tables, in forms, etc.).

In our case, the text package must include superscripts, subscripts,
multiple font families, typefaces, and sizes. 

If anyone knows of a package like this to license or for purchase,
please let me know. I suspect there are a lot of companies who have
had to invent this themselves and would dearly love a standard text
library (perhaps Motif has such a thing).

Peter Ent
Polygen Corp
(617) 890-2888, ext 258