- From: Jon Bosak <bosak@atlantic-83.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 16:57:00 -0700
- To: fahrner@pobox.com
- CC: davidp@earthlink.net, www-style@w3.org
| y'all wrote: | | > I can see an advantage in allowing *any* common weight specifier. The | > UA simply keeps two heirarchical lists of all the common weight names | > with corresponding pointers. For example, the 'boldness' heirarchy | > might include, successively, 'nord, ultra-black, black, ultra-heavy, | > ultra-bold, super, heavy, extra-bold, bold, demi-bold, semi-bold, | > demi, medium, book, roman, regular, normal.' If someone specifies Does anyone care that there is already an ISO standard for font characteristics that addresses all of this? No? OK. Never mind. Have fun. Jon --- Jon Bosak, Online Information Technology Architect Sun Microsystems, 2550 Garcia Ave., MPK17-101, Mountain View, CA 94043 Davenport Group::SGML Open::ANSI X3V1::ISO/IEC JTC1/SC18/WG8::W3C SGML ERB
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