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From: grunwald@foobar.colorado.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: Banish 'font not found' errors forever!
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Date: 16 Dec 89 00:02:30 GMT
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the advantage of using fonts is that they have a normal ``stride'' or
escapement associated with them; also X has primities to lay down
multiple glyphs at once. Thus, when you lay down a strng "foo", the
first "o" will follow "f" and so on - this makes for much faster
display because you don't have to specify the X,Y locations for each
glyph.