From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 13:07:57 -0400 From: plan9@sigint.cs.purdue.edu To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] combining characters Message-ID: <20060523170757.GB31198@sigint.cs.purdue.edu> References: <283f5df10605230724m725aa5c0xa3685711dab3e653@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <283f5df10605230724m725aa5c0xa3685711dab3e653@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 544b6fbc-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:24:14AM -0400, LiteStar numnums wrote: > On 5/23/06, erik quanstrom wrote: >> On Mon May 22 23:59:33 CDT 2006, knapjack@gmail.com wrote: >>> On 5/22/06, erik quanstrom wrote: >>>> it would work in the same way an ICBM could take care of a pesky >>>> beetle. effective, but not without colateral damage. >>> >>> I rescind my suggestion. For world peace. :) >>> >>> Actually, I had never taken a close look at OpenType. I didn't >>> realize just how much it can do. Still a bazooka, but interesting >>> anyway. >>> >>> -Jack >> >> DPS was the basis for OpenWindows and NeXTStep. >> >> - erik >> > Wasn't NeWS 'doubly' PostScript: Display on one side, description betwixt > client & server? It would have looked better in Doubly. Actually, I think the client just sent DPS to the server, which rendered it to the screen. I had hoped that Gosling would someday release the NeWS sources, but I imagine it's all tied up with Adobe IP. Would be neat if someone cloned NeWS using Ghostscript as the engine, but Apple has already done Quartz with PDF, so I suppose PostScript is passe'. (Sorry, my old xterm doesn't do combined characters, just to jerk the thread back on track.)