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From: swick@athena.mit.EDU (Ralph Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help needed with Xt and Text widgets
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Date: 3 Jan 91 15:49:07 GMT
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	The format consists of many lines of text, each line consists
    of two independant strings which both may be of arbitrary length.
    ...
	I have tried hacking around with the Athena Text widget but it
    does not provide the sort of formatting control I reuquire.

You might take a look at the interfaces for TextSource (TextSrc) and
TextSink.  If you want to maintain the pairs of strings as independently
addressable entities, a specialized TextSource should be able to do
what you want.  If you want special display formatting, a specialized
TextSink might do the trick.  There's an example of a *very* specialized
alternative text source in clients/xmh/tsource*.

Unfortunately, there's not a lot of written documentation on these
interfaces; use the R4 Xaw manual and the code.  No guarantees that
any of this is easier than writing your own editing widget from scratch. :-)