At 12:03 PM +1100 24/11/98, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Ross Moore wrote:
>
>> Alternatively you can edit the .css stylesheet, if you wish to force
>> a particular font-size. Consult http://www.w3c.org/Style/ .
>
>That's an interesting point, Ross. Normally in HTML it's wise to
>avoid setting a specific font size, and go along with the reader's
>configured defaults. But, as long as we have to make do with inline
>IMGs in latex2html (as I concede, we do), it's no bad scheme to try
>to have the font size more or less matching the gifs.
But this is impossible to achieve for all readers,
since it is dependent upon the screen resolution.
GIF sizes are in pixels, whereas font-sizes are in points.
On a 100dpi screen the images are only 3/4 the size of a 75dpi screen,
whereas the browser software shows the 14pt (say) font at the same size.
This effect may even vary among browsers and platforms/operating systems.
The only way we'll have real uniformity is when there is no need for GIFs
at all; e.g. using Unicode fonts and/or MathML.
This is still in the (hopefully not too distant) future.
Still, it is reasonable to specify font-sizes, font-faces and line-heights
when you know the capabilities of your audience;
e.g. in a workshop, or computer-lab, or for a CD with browsers included.
>Do people have practical experience in doing this, please?
With the latest latex2html and html.sty there are commands:
\htmlsetstyle and \htmladdtostyle .
e.g. the following are used in the LaTeX2HTML Web document containing:
http://www-texdev.mpce.mq.edu.au/GeoMath/GeoMath/node11_mn.html
\htmlsetstyle[PRE]{}{ color=\#5555aa }
\htmlsetstyle[BODY]{}{ line-height=18pt; font-size=14pt }
\htmlsetstyle[TABLE]{mmacode}{ background-color=\#ffffff ;
text-color=\#5555aa }
\htmlsetstyle{mmacode}{ background-color=\#ffffff }
\htmlsetstyle[SPAN]{textsl}{ color=\#ff5555 }
To see the entries that are generated, get the file
http://www-texdev.mpce.mq.edu.au/GeoMath/GeoMath/GeoMath.css
However with Macintosh Netscape 4.05 the blank paragraphs padding after
displayed-math lose their height --- don't know why.
It doesn't happen under X-windows on a DEC-AlphaStation, with NS 4.05 .
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
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