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Fonts & Encodings
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Fonts & Encodings

by Yannis Haralambous
September 2007
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1040 pages
31h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Chapter 8. Font Management under X Window

Now that we have examined Mac OS and Windows (which are strikingly similar in the area of fonts), let us move on to Unix, an operating system that used to be largely restricted to industry and universities but that is now becoming more and more popular, thanks in particular to its free incarnations, such as Linux. While Mac OS 9 and Windows do not separate the operating system from the windowing system, these two systems are distinct in Mac OS X and Unix. The windowing system manages the operating system's graphical interface: windows, menus, dialog boxes, the mouse, etc. The windowing system of Mac OS X is called Quartz; that of Unix, X Window ("Window" is singular, without an 's') or, among intimates, X11 or even simply X.

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