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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, James Reynolds wrote:
> The fonts on http://www.ldraw.org are too small for the mac. Here is
> what the main page looks like on a Mac for both Netscape and Explorer:
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> http://firebolt.mlmc.utah.edu/~james/ldraw/explorer.jpg
> http://firebolt.mlmc.utah.edu/~james/ldraw/netscape.jpg
Fascinating. So the Reference, Download, etc. headers are supposed to be
different sizes? Of course, I can't see that, because *everything* has
fonts that look too small in Solaris/Netscape, so I require all basic text
to be displayed at what Netscape calls 24pt (more like 14pt). HTML is
designed for that kind of thing.
\begin{pedantic}
If you want logical markup, it should end in .html. If you want literal
markup, it should end in .pdf.
\end{pedantic}
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TWS Garrison
tgarriso@math.purdue.edu
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/
Who earns half his salary teaching LaTeX to TeX users. ..
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| TWS Garrison (...) Agreed...logical markup allows people without a new browser or everything turned off to interpret the site correctly, even if it isn't pretty. CSS still allows you to modify the way the headers and such display, even if it doesn't (...) (23 years ago, 21-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: Font too small for Mac
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| (...) Certainly! But I think Tim actually has _tried_ to move closer to the intentions with HTML with this redesign. I have not had time to look properly at the pages yet, so I can not say how close he managed to get. (...) :-) Jacob (23 years ago, 22-Jan-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.publish)
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