[KLUG Members] HTML Weirdness

[Mark Bystry]

yes, i agree with the last poster. if a special font is used then use it for graphics only. why does 
text need to look silly for anyone to be interested in reading it?

Mark Bystry
SuSE 10.0
KDE 3.4.2


Jeremy Leonard wrote the following on 1/30/2006 9:30 AM:
> Andrew Eidson wrote:
> 
>> Yeah I know it is not a common font and it has been relayed to the person I
>> am doing this for. They really want that font for their name though so that
>> is why it is in use. 
>>
>> Again the font is installed on both machines and shows in the font folders
>> and if I set the default in the browser to that everything shows up in that
>> font.. There has got to be a setting I am missing and I just can't think of
>> it. I have been through every setting in Firefox and IE to no avail.  
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org
>> [mailto:members-bounces at kalamazoolinux.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Thompson
>> Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 9:33 PM
>> To: KLUG Members
>> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] HTML Weirdness
>>
>> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:56 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>> <font face="John Henry LET">  ??
>>>>      
>>>>
>>> yep.  Also you can check if a font is installed correctly on Linux by 
>>> going to fonts:/// in nautilus
>>>    
>>>
>> Don't forget, either, that not everyone is going to have that font, or even
>> want to install it, so if this page is for the general public, you probably
>> don't want to depend too heavily on it.
>>
>>  
>>
>>>>> I am running into some weird HTML issues. I have a page I am 
>>>>> making and some of the text has <font = "John Henry LET" > tag on it.
>>>>>        
>>>>>
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>> Andrew Thompson <tempes at ameritech.net>
>> The Imagerie
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>>  
>>
> If this font is only used for their company name you could use it to 
> create graphic.
> You wouldn't have to worry about the font then.
> 
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