At 01:28 AM 07/05/2003 +0200, Andreas Raab wrote:
> > Users of VisualWorks on unix machines with a couple of thousand
> > installed fonts can probably provide plenty of horror stories
> > about the problems that arise :-)
>
>Sure thing. But VW never had a set of "builtin" fonts, never had a way of
>dealing with fonts for itself, which required people to find "some ways" of
>getting true cross-platform appearance. Isn't it nice to have control over
>your destiny ;-)

And most of those problems are of our own making anyway.


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