No matter how big you make Times Roman, Rick, it will
never affect its aspect ratio. It is simply a narrow
font, and very unsuitable for use on web pages. Microsoft
went to a lot of trouble to commission the design of
fonts for web usage, and the four that I suggested are
all freely available for download and use, regardless
of the platform on which they will finally be deployed.
** Phil.
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Rick Hobson wrote:
>
> Most (if not all) the fonts you specify may not be found on all systems,
> particularly not non M$ ones.
>
> Hence my comments about universally safe. If using times simply use the
> stylesheet to render what _you_ want regarding size.
>
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Philip TAYLOR [PC87S/O-XP] wrote:
>
> > Rick Hobson wrote:
> > >
> > > Never had this problem. This may seem obvious, but have you checked
> > > carefully the syntax of the stylesheet? Most odd behaviour that I've
> > > noticed with stylesheets usually results from a missing ; or : or these
> > > delimeters in the wrong places. Different browsers, as one might expect
> > > :-(, seem to handle stylesheet errors in different ways.
> > >
> > > Regarding specifying fonts
> > >
> > > font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > > font-family: "times new roman", "times roman", times, serif;
> > >
> > > are pretty safe "universal" settings.
> >
> > Maybe "Times Roman" and its ilk are "safe", but they're
> > also distinctly sub-optimal; Times was designed for the
> > narrow columns of the Times newspaper, and is far too
> > narrow for use in (potentially unlimited width) web pages.
> > Far better, IMHO, to use the sequence
> >
> > Verdana, Tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", Georgia, Serif
> >
> > The first three are actually sans serif in appearance, and
> > can therefore be used in a font production list terminating
> > in "Sans-serif" as well.
> >
> > Philip Taylor, RHBNC
> >
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