On Sunday 01 May 2005 23:19, Gregory Pittman wrote: > Riku Leino wrote: > >William H Lugg <wlugg at falconbroadband.net> wrote: > >>Yeah, I saw that, but it left me wondering what "easier" means. Perhaps > >> I worded the question wrong. > > > >Enabling some easy way of selecting a bold/italic etc. font for families > > where these exist. There has been quite a few requests for this and I > > think there's a wiki discussion page set up for this too. > > I wonder how difficult it would be to do the following: > > 1. Continue to have the current situation, which we might call the "long > form" as one alternative. > > 2. Create an additional user-selectable "short form", in which there is > only one listing for each typeface: eg, Luxi Sans, Luxi Serif, Nimbus > Roman, etc. Where a bold version is available, a button could be > clicked, if not the button would be greyed out (unclickable). Another > positive side effect would be to dramatically shorten the font list.
Yes, kind of how I planned it. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050501/8dc6c3d9/attachment.pgp
