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Re: font-size and amaya

From: Irene Vatton <irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:00:40 +0100
To: "John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca>
Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Message-Id: <20031120170040.39bc16ee.irene.vatton@inrialpes.fr>

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 19:05:22 -0500 (EST)
"John Russell" <ve3ll@rac.ca> wrote:

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> >From looking in the Fonts folder it seems that Amaya uses hard-coded
> fonts instead of scalable ones ... and a limited choice of 3 families at that.
> Is it not time to progress.  Other systems use scalable fonts.  Even if the
> number of families does not increase, being able to replicate the final look
> seems like an important factor in a VISUAL editor! 
> --
> john russell ve3ll@rac.ca [those are L's as in LLAMA]
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~trains
> http://home.cogeco.ca/~cipher

Normally Amaya works with truetype fonts (those specified in the config\fonts.win
file. On my Win boxes documents are displayed with the same fonts by IE and Amaya.
     Irene.
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