Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!dali!ogicse!emory!mephisto!gatech!galbp!samna!jeff From: jeff@samna.UUCP (Jeff Barber) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Which Word Processor is easiest to use? Message-ID: <252@samna.UUCP> Date: 30 May 90 14:13:37 GMT References: <3378@altos86.Altos.COM> <1990May27.080939.18019@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <21617@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: jeff@samna.UUCP (Jeff Barber) Organization: Draughtsman's Contractors Lines: 17 In article <21617@boulder.Colorado.EDU> wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes: >On another note, after seeing Windows 3.0 in the store and now after >reading the information I got on it included in my update notice, I am >cured of Mac-Envey and can even go so far as to say that Windows 3.0 is >as good as(if not better than) Motif for X-windows! [X-windows as far as >I know doesn't have proportional fonts]. Slight correction: X-windows *does* have proportional fonts. In fact, for X11R3 (the minimum that most people now have), Adobe and Bitstream donated several font families to the X world including Times, Helvetica, Courier, Charter, and New Century Schoolbook, each in several different sizes; these are all proportionally spaced. In addition to this, several fixed pitch fonts are provided. Jeff