--- Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 :)
This won't work. The reason Symbol fonts are such a pain is that they lie about what glyphs they have. They tell you they have the letters A, B, C, etc but those glyphs are actually symbols. Good new symbol fonts may retain this encoding and have the unicode encoding too, I think this is possible but i'm not sure that it is, or if they are made this way even if it is possible. > > If not then this sounds like it would need a lot > > more care and we could get tripped up everytime > > someone adds a new symbol font we dont currently > > know about. This does indeed happen now with "exotic" fonts. Other programs don't seem to care but it would be nice if we could handle them better. Andrew. > don't worry about that (well, at least with the xft > build) > > Cheers, > > -- > Joaqu�n Cuenca Abela > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl 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
