​Thanks Matabele. I actually just discovered the problem I was  having
before. I was using pngs instead of svgs, and they behave quite
differently. I just downloaded a few free svgs from Flaticon and have added
them to tiddlers and am going to use those.


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Matabele <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> The standard way of including Font Awesome on a website is to link the
> stylesheet to a font server:
> http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/get-started/
>
> Alternatively, the fonts can be served up locally (for example on a
> node.js installation) -- the links at the top of the stylesheet must be
> edited accordingly.
>
> I, however, wished the fonts to work standalone and offline -- I
> downloaded the fonts and installed them into my system as a font set.
> Thereafter the fonts work provided the relevant css styles (you need retain
> only those styles you have used) are included in a stylesheet:
> http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/assets/font-awesome-4.0.3.zip
>
> Don't know if this suits your purpose. If you are looking for a solution
> that does not involve installing fontawesome, static copies of the icons
> can be extracted from the font set once prototyping is complete.
>
> regards
>
> On Friday, April 25, 2014 10:39:56 AM UTC+2, Birthe C wrote:
>>
>> Hi Matabele
>> I agree, font awesome icons look good. I have often wondered though, why
>> they are not showing at http://wills.tiddlyspot.com/. At first I just
>> saw some very strange hieroglyphs, but now it is all numbers???
>> I know I should be able to see your icons in my browser, as I use font
>> awesome myself.
>>
>> Birthe
>>
>>
>>
>> Den fredag den 25. april 2014 07.40.06 UTC+2 skrev Matabele:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Not exactly what you were looking for, but have you considered using
>>> font awesome icons for your buttons?
>>>
>>> In place of the .png image are placed the desired fontawesome class: <i
>>> class="fa fa-suitable-icon  various css styles"></i> There are a selection
>>> of styles which may be applied to the basic icon.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>>
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