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  1. Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 2 May 1994 19:39:30 MST
  2. Path: ucbvax!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!swrinde!ringer!jeffery
  3. From: jeffery@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Clinton L. Jeffery)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
  5. Subject: Re: Icon in May94 BYTE Magazine -- what else & Windows?
  6. Message-Id: <1994May2.220938.20367@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
  7. Date: 2 May 94 22:09:38 GMT
  8. References: <1994May2.093307.5443@driftwood.cray.com>
  9. Distribution: inet
  10. Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio
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  12. Apparently-To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
  13. Status: R
  14. Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
  15.  
  16. David S. Cargo writes:
  17. > I was wondering how fonts were being handled in a portable way between
  18. > the X Windows System and Microsoft Windows.
  19.  
  20. We define a portable syntax for font names, and translate that into
  21. appropriate system fonts.  And we define four portable font names that are
  22. known on all systems, covering the combinations of (fixed/proportional
  23. spacing) and (serif/sans serif).
  24. -- 
  25. Clint Jeffery
  26. cjeffery@cs.arizona.edu, jeffery@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
  27. The University of Texas at San Antonio
  28.