awang@dukie.East.Sun.COM (Angus Wang - Sun BOS Software) (08/23/89)
I read Jim Fulton's document on the X Font Metrics and noticed that the logical width "value will usually be positive for characters that are read from left-to-right, and negative fro characters that are read right-to-left." What I was wondering was if the font metricsare capable of printing top-to-bottom and then right-to-left (ie. chinese). I know that there is the Kanji fonts for X but don't know if they are a strict character replacement font set, therefore producing only a different character set but still in the left-to-right/top-to-bottom order. Thanks for any help of pointers to help. Angus Wang ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Angus Wang (awang@East.Sun.com) ---+--- Disclaimer : Sun Microsystems - Boston Development Center | My ideas, Billerica, MA 01821 -+- my opinions!
rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (08/23/89)
What I was wondering was if the font metricsare capable of printing
top-to-bottom and then right-to-left (ie. chinese).
The X protocol does not contain any direct support for vertical text.