Re: Question on Font Descriptors

> Andrew n marshall wrote:
> 
> 
> How does one reference a font descriptor to use the selected font?
> 
> From the 'Robson Celtic' example in the spec, it seems you use the
> name specified by the 'font-family' descriptor. 

Necessary but not sufficient ...

>  However, in the
> example under 15.3.9, all the font descriptors have the same font
> family name. 

Which implies that other things are also used to reference a font
descriptor. To find out what, read the CSS2 spec, in particular this
section:

15.3.2 Descriptors for Selecting a Font: 'font-family', 
'font-style', 'font-variant','font-weight', 'font-stretch' 
and 'font-size' 

--
Chris

Received on Saturday, 11 April 1998 23:04:26 UTC