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From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hebrew and other RL languages for AMIGA
Message-ID: <5056@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 89 00:22:43 GMT
References: <8998@discus.technion.ac.il> <9087@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Reply-To: kodiak@batgirl.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article adam@cbmcats.UUCP (Adam Keith Levin) writes:
)... For reverse-path fonts, the Space should be small
)or negative; the Kern should be a large, negative number (approximately the
)width of the character).

Right.

)... If all the characters have the same Space value
)when you are done, you can set the font type back to fixed-width.

Wrong.  This never worked :-(  It will not be supported for 1.4.

)No, not all programs correctly handle reverse-path fonts.

Very polite :-).  *Most* programs do not correctly handle them, including
lotso ours :-(.
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