Re: font-weight, font-style problems

Houghton,Andrew wrote:

> If <U> is depreciated then how does one underline?

With CSS.

> If CSS1 allows
> text-decoration:underline; then the font dialog box should allow bold and
> underline since that is the same as CSS1
> font-weight:bold;text-decoration:underline;

The new Characters dialog box allows bold and underline (and italic, and
font family, and size...)

> Even thought <U> has been
> depreciated that doesn't mean you cannot underline.

Right.

> In CSS1 underline,
> overline, blink and line-through are exclusive,

In the Amaya Characters dialog box they are also exclusive
(well, blink is not yet available)

> IMHO that's a deficiency
> with CSS1 however, in the font dialog box I should be allowed to choose a
> font-family, font-style, font-variant, font-weight, font-size along with any
> text-decoration value.

The next release of Amaya will allow you to do so, except that font-variant
is not yet implemented.

Vincent.
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Received on Tuesday, 13 July 1999 13:12:48 UTC