Or wrote
>Another solution that would, however, cause Arachne to increase
>in size, is to add afew more font sets below and above the current
>"scale" of fonts.
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Exactly!
My own partial solution for my own machine was to make my own fontset
combining Arial and Times New Roman to closely mimic the basefont size
of a Windows browser and the step size between other font sizes. In some
ways I preferred it, because <h1> was smaller, but <font size="1"> was
bigger than with Windows, but font sizes 3 and 2 were very close to
Windows, so pages were rendered as hoped for (forgetting the fluid
design principle). Having a mix of the two font faces also gives variety
to the page design.
But looking closely at the fonts (or even not very closely), italic
was awful and the spacing between letters wasn't right etc., and I
find it more tiring to read Arachne pages. The only solution seemed
to be editing each character by hand, but I never did it. Maybe one day!
Regards,
Jake
