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Subject: Horizontal Offsets
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Date: 23 Jan 89 15:31:28 GMT
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Dear ST'ers,
      I would like to ask for help, a friend of mine has posed the following
question. Is there any kind Atari wizard who can supply the answer.

"Could you please ask if anyone knows if/when Atari are going to implement
 horizontal offset tables in GDOS - these allow a character to be backspaced
 or moved forward before it is printed, and are necessary for printing
 accents, Hebrew vowels, and such like. I have spoken to Bob Katz at Atari UK,
but has not so far been able to provide any information on this. At present the
only way of editing and printing vocalized Hebrew etc is to use Signum, which
is frustrating since GEM is supposed to have this capability"

I will pass on any response, it will be gratefully received.

                    Robert Chafer,