Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-11 Thread Nancy Seeger
On Jan 11, 2011, at 6:29 AM, css-d-requ...@lists.css-discuss.org wrote: From: Andrew Cunningham lang.supp...@gmail.com Nancy, you are mixing encodings within a document. If you do want to use a character rather than an image, you should use the appropriate Unicode character, considering the

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-10 Thread Nancy Seeger
Hi Jukka, It seems that the currently most important issue with embedded fonts (web fonts) is the varying quality in different browsing situations. As far as I have understood, Windows systems may not properly apply font smoothing to embedded fonts, or otherwise render them in suboptimal

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew Cunningham
Nancy, you are mixing encodings within a document. If you do want to use a character rather than an image, you should use the appropriate Unicode character, considering the website is UTF-8: U+260E Look for a font that has this character. It will also allow browsers on various operating systems

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-09 Thread Bob Rosenberg
At 11:21 +1100 on 01/10/2011, Andrew Cunningham wrote about Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images: Nancy, you are mixing encodings within a document. If you do want to use a character rather than an image, you should use the appropriate Unicode character, considering

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-09 Thread Nancy Seeger
Hi Georg, Pretty much the same way as with images - as with all inline elements. Just make sure the line-height is in raw numbers or other non-fixed value there and for other sections (or else IE6 and other IE versions won't do well when font-resizing). Something like... .dingbat

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-08 Thread G.Sørtun
http://nina.artsassistance.com/ I'm taking the WordPress default theme and mucking it up to the clients wishes with design. In what I hoped would be more browser friendly, I used a ding bats type web font Combi Symbols for a telephone instead of using an image (mostly to satisfy IE6.)

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-08 Thread G.Sørtun
On 08.01.2011 10:41, G.Sørtun wrote: .dingbat {font-size: ___%; vertical-align: -3em;} ...should of course be... .dingbat {font-size: ___%; vertical-align: -.3em;} __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org]

Re: [css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-08 Thread Jukka K. Korpela
Nancy Seeger wrote: The beta text area is located here - navbar area Contact with a web font phone: http://nina.artsassistance.com/ I'd first like to draw your attention to a styling issue that you may not have noticed because it depends on browsing environment: the text looks somewhat odd

[css-d] Font-face, alignment issue similar to images

2011-01-07 Thread Nancy Seeger
Hi All, Please pardon my newness, have been lurking for a while trying to get a feel for what the accepted practices are for the list. So if I err, please just let me know, I will don the sack cloth accordingly. In my enthusiasm to embrace font-face, I have run into an issue I'm not quite