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From: ms2@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Shelley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: X windows.
Keywords: WordProcessing
Message-ID: <2567@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 25 Nov 90 21:04:11 GMT
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Reply-To: ms2@doc.ic.ac.uk (M Shelley)
Organization: Department Of Computing, Imperial College, London UK
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I'm just a poor humble student who is just learning about X windows.
I am just about to start writing a MacWrite style word processor that
will run on Sun 3's under X windows, and I was wondering if anybody has
any source code that might be interesting to look at.

I will be using the toolkit widgets and so I suppose that xman is a good
starting point? Or might it be a better idea to learn to use Motif?

Also, I know that X uses pixel based fonts. Could anybody tell me
anything/direct me to any information about vector font usage (i.e. where you
specify the line that make up the characters, rather than the bitmap image of
it.)

I guess that laserprinter output will be a good idea, so is postscript the
right thing to use? If so are there any good books on it?

	Cheers
			Martin

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C, n.:
	A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more
	like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or
	anything else.  It is either the best language available to the art
	today, or it isn't.
			-- Ray Simard

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