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From: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Wanted: Pointers to materials describing extensions to X (long)
Message-ID: <1990Jun8.142656.12069@tsa.co.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 90 14:26:56 GMT
References: <1990Jun8.083647.10924@tsa.co.uk>
Reply-To: domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
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In article <1990Jun8.083647.10924@tsa.co.uk> domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop)
(that's me) writes:
>It seems to me that Xlib is biased in favour of left-to-right
>languages, in that this is the direction that strings get drawn -- if
>you want right-to-left, or vertical, you have to make your own
>arrangements.

Well, I got this wrong: the direction member in XFontStruct accommodates
left-to-right or right-to-left, but not vertical text.
-- 
Dominic Dunlop