--- Karl Ove Hufthammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Absolutely. There should be a preference editor > > somewhere where the user can set which fonts > > substiture for which fonts. > > Most fonts[1] contain PANOSE[2][3] information. If > this > information is embedded in documents (they don't > take up much > space -- only 8 digits for each fonts), they can be > used to make > *intelligent* font substitutions[4]. > > In addition, a simple look-up table for most common > fonts (Times > New Roman --> Times, Arial --> Helvetica) could be > built-in > AbiWord.
Both sound like great suggestions. Courier is probably the third of the most important font types. Andrew. > Footnotes > ========= > > [1] At least medium to high-quality fonts, which are > the only font > which should (and usually will) be used in > documents. > [2] <URL: > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/notes.html#panose > > [3] <URL: http://www.panose.com/hardware/pan1.asp > > [4] <URL: > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-selection > > > > -- > Karl Ove Hufthammer ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
