Post #47,953
8/3/02 12:15:31 PM
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Font Choice - For Verdana-Free Machines
Is there a quick way you can change the default font? I get green when I see Verdana :)
Note: I had to modify an APL font so I got to know a lot about fonts, also because at the same time I was upgrading to X 4.2 and FreeType-2.0.6, which apparently had a much finer TT antialiasing algorithm. During all this I became totally free of the Verdana font, but have hesitated to delete it. I do have Helvetica but that looks shitty by comparison with, say, certain of the Lucida sans fonts (forgot the foundry). Verdana has a low height to width ratio, so it looks fat. I think Verdana was mainly an effort at a readable screen font on smallish monitors, mostly 800x600. Arial looks very poor at low resolution and I would be free of that too, except it makes a good menu font (I use Abadi Light). I've been TNR free since the early 90s.
Except for this nit, this software seems to be very well written. There are never any problems.
-drl
-drl
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Post #47,961
8/3/02 2:16:02 PM
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Done.
See "Edit Preferences".
Let me know what font families to add to the list; I only have 4 in there right now.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #47,962
8/3/02 2:31:25 PM
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Further font suggestions
Times, Times New Roman, Georgia, Trebuchet.
Dude, you rock.
Peter
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Post #47,963
8/3/02 2:36:10 PM
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Added... but...
those aren't the actual CSS font families, are they?
I put in times-new-roman for Times New Roman, as an example. If they aren't correct, let me know.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #47,964
8/3/02 2:39:51 PM
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Results:
Georgia works as expected. Times and Times New Roman produce the same thing (Times). Trebuchet doesn't change the font.
Hmm...
Wonder why Georgia would work and Trebuchet not?
Peter
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Post #47,965
8/3/02 2:41:45 PM
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Re: Results:
No idea. If you can figure out what the font family is, let me know.
It gets placed in the .css stuff at the top of every page (view source for details). I think that's the only place I use font families... let me know if I missed one somewhere.
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #47,966
8/3/02 2:59:13 PM
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Re: Results:
body { font-size: 100%; font-family: times new roman; }
td { font-size: 90%; font-family: times new roman; }
That works for Times New Roman. This works for Trebuchet:
body { font-size: 100%; font-family: trebuchet ms; }
td { font-size: 90%; font-family: trebuchet ms; }
(I obviously forgot the trailing "MS". Doh.)
Peter
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Post #47,967
8/3/02 3:10:20 PM
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Fixed
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #47,968
8/3/02 3:24:59 PM
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And tested. Good job. I'll buy you a beer sometime.
Peter
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Post #47,969
8/3/02 3:36:01 PM
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Deal. :-)
Regards,
-scott anderson
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Post #48,083
8/4/02 10:40:24 PM
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On CSS fonts
[link|http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html|Here] is the CSS Spec for Fonts...
Hopefully it'll do ya...
greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT,
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Post #47,990
8/3/02 9:12:57 PM
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Garamond
I've got one beef with it -- there seem to be some extended characters which don't render properly. Other than that, I was trying several other fonts, including New Century Schoolbook, Verdana, Times, and several others. Garamond to my eye is the best proportioned proportional, serifed font for online reading. To the extent that failure to render a small handful of characters is acceptable.
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Post #47,991
8/3/02 9:31:27 PM
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Added.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #48,008
8/4/02 12:45:19 AM
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Scott... did I ever mention....
That I had an exposure-burn on my right side, from being on your left for ~24 hours inside my car?
Oh, and by the way... D00DZ U ROXXORS!!!
Now if I could get things done THAT easy at work...
greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT,
curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
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Post #48,021
8/4/02 8:10:54 AM
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Not me....
... Zope makes things like that easy.
Two lines of code and a form field object. No biggie.
Regards,
-scott anderson
"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
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Post #48,084
8/4/02 10:44:04 PM
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You!!! ...Yes... You Laddie!
Everytime I remember about instantiated classes in SED...
There you go exposing me to that NETHERWORLD... called Programming....
My head HURTS!
greg - Grand-Master Artist in IT,
curley95@attbi.com -- REMEMBER ED CURRY!!!
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Post #47,994
8/3/02 11:12:23 PM
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Very Nice, Thanks a Lot
-drl
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