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Subject: Re: Font usage in non-US Systems
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Recently nicktrou@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Nikos B. Troullinos) wrote:

> What is the correct way for specifying usage of the basic fonts in
> programs that are to be used internationally?

The Script Manager calls GetScript and GetEnvirons can be used to get
the system and application fonts and sizes for individual scripts or
for the whole system.  There are also verbs listed in the "Worldwide
Software" document for getting small, monospaced, or balloon help
fonts.

					--Tom Lippincott
					  lippin@math.berkeley.edu

   "Doubtless one does not stroll about Cambridge carrying candy in one's
    pocket to give to Bertrand Russell or Alfred North Whitehead, however."
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