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From: rjc@uk.ac.ed.cstr (Richard Caley)
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Subject: Re: what's most important to you for R5?
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Date: 10 Jul 90 19:11:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: guy@auspex.auspex.com's message of 8 Jul 90 18:12:20 GMT

In article <3628@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

    >Xterm
    >    (I don't envy anyone working on this program;  it's scary in there.)
    >    Xterm currently utterly fails to support proportional fonts,

    So do most other terminals.  In fact, so do a lot of programs that *run*
    on terminals; for what would proportional-font support in "xterm" be
    better than, say, having the application run as an X application rather
    than as a "dumb terminal" application?

Fine if you want to rewrite every program that ever was.

Eg of where I'd like to use a proportional font. I have a console
window which is an ``xterm -C'' in which my window manager runs and
nothing else. This means that console messages and window manager
message turn up in there. Since this is output only it would be nice
if it were as readable as possible, a nice proportional font would do
nicely.