Re: OODL: Re: [opencard-digest V1 #266]

[DeRobertis]

At 3:01 PM +0100 on 3/2/00, M. Uli Kusterer wrote:

>Anthony,
>
> you're talking about font substitution, right? This would basically work,
>but we'd also need to remember average character width, else we might get
>Garamond Narrow substituted with New York and then all our button titles
>would be cut off to the left and right.

Tht'as what to total line width is for.

>In the German version you enter
>measurements in millimeters, but internally they're kept as inches.

Actually, I think they're kept as points. It does the same thing with inches.

BTW: I noticed something neat -- X on Unix allows reals for the number
of points in a font. Hmmm...