Re: Browser Fonts/CSS

Everyone who has answered has been great (and brave), but the sad fact (I
think) is either the question scared most people away or their frustration
level is so high they might have to run out and kill a perfect stranger
after answering...

Finding fonts with predictable widths (one or two for serif and sans-serif)
win/mac NN4 and IE4/5 (and, yes, x-windows too would be nice, in a perfect
world, but might drive me to suicide) is giving me ulcers. Of course, I
could stick to just one font... but was hoping to have a choice or two...

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Freda Lockert" <fredalockert(at)clara.co.uk>
To: <hwg-basics(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: Browser Fonts/CSS


> >Excellent resource:
>
>
>
> >The page makes reference to using FONT FACE, but is relevant for anyone
> >using fonts, either via CSS or the face attribute of the font element.
>
> ... For example, you can define an em dash (  ) to be a black square
> 14 pixels long and one pixel high with three pixels of vertical
> space, like so:...
>
> Aaaarrgh!!! No, no, no. Beats head on desk in frustration. And
> immediately beneath this they refer you to the best book on
> typography in existence. The authors may have read it but they
> obviously haven't absorbed it. I must go and lie down in a darkened
> room ...
>
> Freda
>
> --
> Never give up on what you know in your heart to be right. The world
> needs you and your commitment, desperately. - John Denver.

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