On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 19:47, Alan Horkan wrote: > > > > > > > http://pino.frontisterion.nl/uwog/secret.jpg > > > > > > Hi Marc, > > > > This is really nice work and will be a significant new feature for > > > > us. However I was wondering if you could go one better and display the > > > > font name in the font itself within the drop down box. > > > > > > > > ie So the font "Comic Sans MS" is displayed in Comic Sans MS font. > > > > > > > > This is what MS Word 2000/97 does. > > > > Excellent suggestion IMHO. > > > > > but then Dingbats and symbol fonts are totally unrecognisable ! > > > > These fonts will require a bit more of care, yes. > > Is there any way to automatically identify a symbol fonts?
Not a symbol, but you can know if it has the need glyphs or not. If that becomes a problem I can implement it pretty quickly, don't worry :) > If not then this sounds like it would need a lot more care and we could > get tripped up everytime someone adds a knew symbol font we dont > currently know about. don't worry about that (well, at least with the xft build) Cheers, -- Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
