RE: FW: Font-family specification

Chris Lilley wrote:
>I would also like to see spaces allowed in font names.  This could be
>done by choosing some character as a separator (such as the comma Chris
>suggests) <...> or alternatively by quoting 

Several other people have suggested quoting; I agree quoting should be 
allowed (that is, in the spec and supported), but I think a non-whitespace 
separator should be used anyway, for the following reason.

Let's say I'm hand-authoring a document.  I decide I want to use Times New 
Roman for all H1 headers, so I write
<style>
h1 { font-family: Times New Roman }
</style>
This seems perfectly straightforward, but this would actually look first for 
a font named "Times" (which it may or may not find), then a font named "New" 
(which it probably won't find), and then it will find "Roman" (which may or 
may not exist).  I guess I'm saying that unless authors specify more than 
one family name (e.g., the desired family and a generic family), I doubt it 
will occur to them that they should have quotes around the names.

>>  Some of the most popular fonts on the Microsoft Windows platform 
(remember, 
>> it is the most popular OS out there) have spaces in their names (e.g., 
>
>I do not believe this is a platform issue.

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was; I just meant that some of the default 
fonts that ship with at least one popular operating system (Windows) have 
spaces in their names.

	-Chris
Chris Wilson
cwilso@microsoft.com

Received on Friday, 26 January 1996 14:34:13 UTC