Great tip. I would never have guessed. Thank you.

Can anyone recommend a site that has an in-depth discussion of styling 
text with CSS?

Richard





> 
> On Sep 8, 2006, at 4:03 AM, richard n wrote:
> 
>> In the site I'm creating I've set up the fonts for the Body tag like so:
>> 
>> 'font: small "Gill Sans Light", "Gill Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica,
>> Arial, sans-serif;'
>> 
>> (I believe that Gill Sans and Gill Sans Light are supplied as standard
>> with OSX. They're unlikely to be on the average PC, so Trebuchet is for
>> them.)
>> 
>> Previewing in different browsers on my Mac, I see Gill Sans Light in
>> Firefox, Opera and even IE Mac 5.2.3.
>> 
>> Safari, however, won't display Gill Sans Light - it displays Gill Sans.
> 
> You need to use the Postscript name of the font: 'GillSans-Light' for 
> Safari, otherwise Safari uses the 'regular' weight
> font: small 'GillSans-Light', 'Gill Sans Light', 'Gill Sans', ..........
> 
> Philippe
> ---
> Philippe Wittenbergh
> <http://emps.l-c-n.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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