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From: awang@dukie.East.Sun.COM (Angus Wang - Sun BOS Software)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Can X font metrics handle top->bottom, L->R ?
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Date: 22 Aug 89 19:52:14 GMT
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I read Jim Fulton's document on the X Font Metrics and noticed that the
logical width "value will usually be positive for characters that are read
from left-to-right, and negative fro characters that are read right-to-left."

What I was wondering was if the font metricsare capable of printing
top-to-bottom and then right-to-left (ie. chinese).  I know that there
is the Kanji fonts for X but don't know if they are a strict character
replacement font set, therefore producing only a different character
set but still in the left-to-right/top-to-bottom order.

Thanks for any help of pointers to help.

Angus Wang

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