On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:41 +0200, A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > Steve Hall wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 00:31 +0200, Michael Schaap wrote: > > > I beg you, please don't hardcode Courier New! [snip] > > It's not just the proper way, it's the first thing discussed in the > > specification: > > > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-specification > > It is said nowhere in that document that a generic-family should be > the only element in a font-face specification. > [snip] > > In fact that W3C document mentions "selecting a font by a single > string" only to dismiss it as inappropriate because of lack of > standardization.
My point was that the generic families were designed for an obvious reason...to fall back to something that works everywhere. Why wouldn't we want Vim to work just this way? Designers, not converters, should select font faces. If the converter is going to attempt to select one, than it had better do a good job of understanding what platform I am writing for, what fonts are available for that platform, and selecting one that follows my intentions within all the details of that specification. -- Steve Hall [ digitect dancingpaper com ]
