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From: jim@ncd.COM (Jim Fulton)
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Subject: Re: How to Get 90 degree Rotated Fonts? [font server]
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Date: 8 Oct 90 07:55:51 GMT
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	For instance, requiring that a
	database of all potential font servers be maintained wouldn't not be nice.  A
	dynamic mechanism where the application simply registers itself as a font server
	would be much nicer.

A font server is essentially equivalent to a font directory in that it will be an element
of the X FontPath.  In environments with name services (e.g. Hesiod, among others), font
services could be named (well-known ones are easy; dynamic ones are also easy if the the
name server supports dynamic updates itself).  At worst, one could imagine a host:port
syntax for naming font servers that wouldn't require name service.