You are correct that the Motif text widget does *not* handle
multi-font, multi-color text.
Did you read the explanation for the "document pages" feature (or
fatally flawed design decision, whichever) in the docs, for which a
hyperlink is especially set up right by where it says "Document Page 1
of 5"? Apparently not. Let me summarize.
The X Window System has this (to me, fatally flawed) design decision I
hadn't suspected. X windows can only be so big. Up to the size of a
16-bit integer, in fact, in pixels. This is really really bad. This
means that the other WWW X browsers (at least Viola and Midas, the
only two I've been able to get working) will *not* correctly handle
documents that, when layed out, take up more pixels in height than
that -- e.g., your RFC. Go try it on them. Then look at what X
Mosaic does, which is lay out as much text as possible in the window
and then give you convenient automatic inlined hyperlinks to the
remainder of the text, partitioned into window-sized chunks. Then
tell me who's making fatally flawed decisions.
Marc
-- Marc Andreessen Software Development Group National Center for Supercomputing Applications [email protected]