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+<sect1 id="Customizing_the_Text_Widget">
+<title>Customizing the Text Widget</title>
+<para>
+<!-- .LP -->
+<!-- .XS -->
+<!-- Customizing the Text Widget -->
+<!-- .XE -->
+<!-- .IN "Text widget" "customizing" "@DEF@" -->
+</para>
+<para>
+<!-- .LP -->
+The remainder of this chapter will describe customizing the Text
+widget. The Text widget may be customized by subclassing, or by
+creating new sources and sinks. Subclassing is described in
+detail in Chapter 7; this section will describe only those things that
+are specific to the Text widget. Attributes of the Text widget base
+class and creating new sources and sinks will be discussed.
+</para>
+<para>
+<!-- .LP -->
+The Text widget is made up of a number of different pieces, with the
+Text widget as the base widget class. It and the AsciiText widget are
+the only true "widgets" in the Text widget family. The other pieces
+(sources and sinks) are X Toolkit objects and have no window
+associated with them. No source or sink is useful unless assigned to
+a Text widget.
+</para>
+<para>
+<!-- .LP -->
+Each of the following pieces of the Text widget has a specific purpose,
+and will be, or has been, discussed in detail in this chapter:
+<!-- .IN "Text widget" "" -->
+</para>
+<para>
+<variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>Text</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This is the glue that binds everything else together. This widget reads
+the text data from the source, and displays the information in the sink.
+All translations and actions are handled in the Text widget itself.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+<!-- .IN "TextSink object" "" -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>TextSink</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This object is responsible for displaying and clearing the drawing area.
+It also reports the configuration of the window that contains the
+drawing area. The TextSink does not have its own window; instead it does
+its drawing on the Text widget's window.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+<!-- .IN "TextSrc object" "" -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>TextSrc</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This object is responsible for reading, editing and searching through the
+text buffer.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+<!-- .IN "AsciiSink object" "" -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>AsciiSink</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This object is a subclass of the TextSink and knows how to display
+ASCII text. Support has been added to display any 8-bit character set, given
+the font.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+<!-- .IN "MultiSink object" "" -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>MultiSink</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This object is a subclass of the TextSink and knows how to display
+font sets.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+<!-- .IN "AsciiSrc object" "" -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>AsciiSrc</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This object is a subclass of the TextSrc and knows how to read strings
+and files.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+<!-- .IN "MultiSrc object" "" -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>MultiSrc</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This object is a subclass of the TextSrc and knows how to read strings
+and multibyte files, converting them to wide characters based on locale.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+<!-- .IN "AsciiText widget" "" -->
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><function>AsciiText</function></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+This widget is a subclass of the Text widget. When created, the AsciiText
+automatically creates and attaches either an AsciiSrc and AsciiSink, or a
+MultiSrc and MultiSink, to itself. The AsciiText provides the simplest
+interface to the Athena Text widgets.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+</para>
+</sect1>