Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Help with X11R4 Fonts Message-ID: Date: 9 Dec 90 20:59:17 GMT References: <9012072102.AA09296@hq.af.mil> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 1, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: daffy In-reply-to: mitch@HQ.AF.MIL's message of 8 Dec 90 06:02:24 JST Typically, xterm-based clients (including kterm) expect fixed-width fonts, such as a14. Each character displayed by xterm is assumed to have a width of one em (in the literal sense), and in the interest of speed, strings of characters are displayed as strings. Hence, the disparity between position-based output and proportional string output causes the spacing to go screwy. ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet