Re: Bug Report and Enhanced text question

[Bastian M. <bma...@we...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
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> I'm not sure we're all three of us on the same page here.
> It may be that I misunderstood the original question.
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> The terminal driver itself may need to track such information
> internally in order to implement enhanced text.
> That is certainly true.
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> But I thought Chris's question was whether a driver was=20
> obligated to pass such information back to the core code.
> The answer to that one is 'no'.=20
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> It would be nice if the core routines *could* ask a driver
> for specific details, but unfortunately this doesn't work
> in general.  PostScript is a major example, but it is also
> true for svg and x11. =20
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I fully agree. Such a routine would make a nice (optional) addition
to the terminal interface though. That way we could provide non terminal
specific versions of enh_put_text(), enh_flush() and enh_open().
These could be used for gd.trm, win.trm, pm.trm and probably pdf.trm and
bitmap based terminals.

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Bastian M=E4rkisch