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From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: GUIs, Windowing packages: flexibility
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Date: 16 Aug 89 16:30:32 GMT
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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