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glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
> In article <DAVIS.90Oct31164243@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> davis@pacific.mps
> >Hi,
> >
> >   What is the easies way I can concatenate two strings of different fonts t
> >produce a third string?  I don't care if the two original strings are lost i
> >the process-- I only need the result.  An example would be greatly appreciat
> 
> Here's an example string-concatenating procedure that is in my new book,
> "Thinking in PostScript" (which I just saw lots of copies of in our local
> bookstore!); I'll leave out the error checking code that raises a typecheck
> if it isn't passed two strings.

   Is the font information stored with a string, or does the font
information come into play only at the time the string is converted to a
drawable form? (Either a show or charpath or like operation.)

   If the font information is not carried with the string, then
concatenating two strings will mean any drawing/pathing operators that
follow will produce the one resultant string in one font. In other words,
you could NOT concatenate two strings of two different fonts to produce
one string of two fonts. 

   The original post seemed to stress the two fonts combined on one
string. Is this really what the poster requested, or did I misread this?





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