The Bitstream VERA font, the first truely crossplatform solution

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 8:33 PM +0100 2/7/04, Dom wrote:
>About visually impaired persons: it's a pain for me to read those tiny
>chars in the Help ;->
>This ought to be a choice!

Sorry. It was difficult to design this in, because the way styles in 
fields are architected currently, any change to font, size, style, or 
color sets all of them. For example, if you have a field of 11-point 
Verdana, and you boldface one word, the word's font and size are set 
to Verdana 11 - so if you change the field to New York 18, for 
example, the boldfaced word will still be Verdana 11.

The documentation has a lot of style changes, so what this means in 
practice is that to change the doc font or size, you need to go 
through all the style runs on each of the thousands of cards in the 
documentation, and change the font and size for each of them. This 
can be done in a script but it takes too long to be practical as a 
preference setting. (But if the architecture changes to allow this to 
be fast, I'm sure it will be done.)
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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed at jaedworks.com
http://www.jaedworks.com