From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 13:47:59 EDT
> > > > http://pino.frontisterion.nl/uwog/secret.jpg
> > > Hi Marc,
> > > This is really nice work and will be a significant new feature for
> > > us. However I was wondering if you could go one better and display the
> > > font name in the font itself within the drop down box.
> > >
> > > ie So the font "Comic Sans MS" is displayed in Comic Sans MS font.
> > >
> > > This is what MS Word 2000/97 does.
>
> Excellent suggestion IMHO.
>
> > but then Dingbats and symbol fonts are totally unrecognisable !
>
> These fonts will require a bit more of care, yes.
Is there any way to automatically identify a symbol fonts?
If not then this sounds like it would need a lot more care and we could
get tripped up everytime someone adds a knew symbol font we dont
currently know about.
> It's still better than Marc's work (which is much better than our
> previous behaviour), because with the Word 2000 you don't have to go
> until the font name to see how it looks. You can see how all fonts
> looks immediately.
With the floating font preview you can get both the size and the style.
I you try and jam it in the menu you have the problems of symbol fonts and
you have to display it at a small size.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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