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From: Harri Haataja <harriha@mai...>
Subject: combining characters
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 23:09:24 +0300

On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 01:07:57PM -0400, plan9@sig... wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 10:24:14AM -0400, LiteStar numnums wrote:
> > On 5/23/06, erik quanstrom <quanstro@qua...> wrote:
> >>
> >> DPS was the basis for OpenWindows and NeXTStep.
> >>
> > Wasn't NeWS 'doubly' PostScript: Display on one side, description
> > betwixt client & server?

> 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.)

Naturally an interested party re DPS was GNUStep.
http://gnustep.org/information/mission.html contains:
"
GNUstep has split the GUI into a front-end GUI "interface" and a backend
window-server specific implementation. With this architecture it is
possible to support several window-server backends (DPS, X, libart,
Windows). Our main interest is supporting the Display PostScript drawing
model (at least conceptually), but we may support other models in the
future.
"

I think they've only managed X11 though, but ICBW.

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