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Subject: Re: Text subwindow and Asian fonts (?)
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Date: 17 Jan 91 15:04:59 GMT
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> 
> Has anyone adapted the text subwindow from the X11R4 XView
> distribution for Asian fonts?  I don't want to be reinventing the
> wheel.

	Programmatically you can specify the font for the TEXTSW via
	TEXTSW_FONT:

		xv_set(yourtextsw, TEXTSW_FONT, somefont, NULL);

	(also see chapter 16 of Dan Heller's XVPM for fonts)


	I'm not an expert on Asian fonts by any stretch of the imagination,
	but I would guess that once you have the font, it should be
	simple.  (assuming you want a horizontal, left-to-right font, that is...)
	I'm not quite sure where you could get a (mono-spaced) asian font
	though.

	As an initial test with your font, you could try running textedit 
	with the "-fn" option:

	e.g., 

	% textedit -font "-itc-zapfdingbats-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0--dingbats"
	% textedit -font "-b&h-lucida-bold-i-normal-sans-0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1"


	Hope this helps,

	Frank G.