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Re: Different fonts in webpages
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Date: 
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 11:15:14 GMT
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Linc Smith <ldsmith@pfc.forestry.ca> wrote:
Another concern of mine is reproducing intended font size on different
systems.  Is there  a best way to go about this?  Is +1 +2 the same on all
systems, or is there a more precise way of indicating size... say like
"points".

The various font sizes are not even promised to be rendered at different
sizes, according to the official spec. HTML really is not meant to be a page
layout language, despite a lot of changes which make it more so.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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  Re: Different fonts in webpages
 
.> "Standard" in the sense of standard on Microsoft operating systems, of (...) change (...) viewers (...) This is my concern really. I have a windows system and the fonts that come with using that system. It is the other OS's that I am wondering (...) (25 years ago, 11-Oct-99, to lugnet.publish)

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