On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 01:51:57PM -0800, Bill Janssen wrote:
> Yes, but...
> 
> You'll notice that we don't really have the notion of BOLD -- we only
> have a font style.  Our font support is already suboptimal, and I don't
> see the problem with adding more suboptimality.

That is one thing that has bugged me quite a bit. Bold fonts should be
a tag like italics. But that's for another thread :)

> It seems to me the viewer already needs font-untangling code, and this
> would be a relatively minor change to it.

The only problem with setting sub/super script as a font is that you
have to 'hard-code' the actual font-face value. For example:

<h1>H<sub>2</sub>O</h1>

Would look like:

** **    ***
** **   ** **
*****   ** **
** **   ** **
** ** 2  ***

If sub/super script were a function then we'd more accuratly reproduce

** **        ***
** **       ** **
*****  ***  ** **
** ** ** ** ** **
** **    **  ***
        **
      *****

-- 
Adam McDaniel
Array.org
Calgary, AB, Canada

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