francky wrote:
> Analyze: FF is making capitals of the text, but 'cause these texts have
> a { text-transform: lowercase; } there should be no capitals in FF at
> all... Then it must be the font itself. Indeed, I made a test page, and
> FF (1.07 anyway) has a different font for the default "serif" compared
> to all other browsers...
Not sure which font it is (it looks similar to one I remember using in
my old hot metal printing days called, IIRC, Castellar) but the problem
is that it's a titling font, and therefore has no lower case characters.
Back in the days when "font" meant "a collection of characters all of
one size cast in type metal" a titling font was one which was only made
in larger sizes (18pt - 72pt, usually) and only had upper case
characters. As the name implies, it was used for titles (e.g on a poster
or a title page), where using all-capitals was a fairly normal
convention from around the 18th century onwards. You would even get
cases like Eric Gill's Perpetua, designed as a book font, but for which
he created a special Perpetua Titling font, with the capitals modified
slightly to look better at the larger sizes.
Such fonts having been converted to digital fonts, they retain the
characteristic of having no lower case characters, because nobody ever
designed those in the first place.
So after that little taste of typographical history, if you go to the
Tools menu -> Options... -> Content tab -> Fonts & Colors fieldset,
Advanced button -> Serif select box, you can set it back to Times New
Roman or whatever and all will be well.
As to how such an inappropriate font got selected in the first place:
who knows. Could one of your mates be trying to wind you up? :-)
HTH,
Nick.
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Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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