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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
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Subject: Re: Some questions about text support in X11R2.
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Date: 13 Sep 88 14:53:47 GMT
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     Date:  Mon, 12 Sep 88 15:36:39 EDT
     From:  kadakia@applicon.com (Smit Kadakia)

     Given text size, is there any way to get list of all fixed width
     fonts of the given text size without loading all available fonts
     and checking their sizes ?

No, not until servers support the new font naming scheme that is being adopted.

     Is there a standard set of fonts which will be available on all
     xlib and server implementation ?

no.

     If a given workstation supports only one hardware font, how will
     server support multiple fonts? Does the server stroke out the
     font ?

Servers may support as few or as many fonts as they wish (but at least
one) and may store and paint them in any manner that conforms to the
protocol.