Re: How to change generic fonts? - report
by Charles A Upsdell <cupsdell(at)upsdell.com>
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Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:58:34 -0500 |
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Of the various suggestions made regarding my question, the only one that
worked was the suggestion made by Shasta Willson: to delete the font,
forcing IE to pick another one. Deleting the offending sans-serif font in
this case made IE pick Arial.
Thanks to all who tried to help.
> > However, this only selects the fonts to be used if NO fonts are specified
> > on a page, either using CSS or the dreaded FONT tag. And this is NOT what
> > I was asking about.
> >
> > What I was asking was how to select the CSS generic fonts: remember that
> > there are five generic fonts defined for the font-family property, namely
> > 'serif', 'sans-serif', 'cursive', 'fantasy', and 'monospace'. On my PC the
> > generic fonts that IE has chosen for me are not what I would want: the
> > generic sans-serif font is particularly ugly and hard to read. This makes
> > some pages -- for example the HTML 4.01 specs on the W3C site -- really
> > hard for me to read.
> >
> > In Opera it is possible to configure these five generic fonts. I am
> > seeking some way to do the same thing for IE.
> >
> > Try again, anyone?
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Chuck Upsdell
Email: cupsdell(at)upsdell.com
Website: http://www.upsdell.com/
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