Re: Font Family

"Bjoern Hoehrmann" <bjoern (AT) hoehrmann (DOT) de> schreef in bericht
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* lostinspace wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets:
Is it possible to define individual font sizes for each type in the
family?
I'd like to define a 10pt font for Verdana while having the
remainder of the
family options display at 12pt.

FONT-FAMILY: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

Doesn't
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html...nt-size-adjust do
what you want?

Looks very useful, but.... in which browsers is it supported?

Sincerely,
Els

"Els" <els.aNOSPAM (AT) PLEASEtiscali (DOT) nl> wrote:

Doesn't
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/fonts.html...nt-size-adjust do
what you want?

Looks very useful, but.... in which browsers is it supported?

Hardly any. And font-size-adjust has been removed from the CSS 2.1
draft.

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

"lostinspace" <lostinspace (AT) 123-universe (DOT) com> wrote:

[quotes about 40 lines using nonstandard quotation indicators,
then asks a one-liner:]

As a result is there a way possible to accomplish my inquiry?

No. You effectively asked how to make font-size depend on font-family,
specifically how to make Verdana smaller than the other alternatives.
Useful as it might be, it's not possible.

The conclusion is, as you could see by checking past discussions on
Verdana, that Verdana should normally not be used in author style sheets.
Opinions differ on what (if anything) might constitute a special reason
for using it. But certainly that question is to be considered taking into
account the fact that it will be of the same size as the other
alternatives listed in the font-family declaration that is to be applied.
That is, knowing that Verdana will look "too big".

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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:28:03 GMT, "lostinspace"
<lostinspace (AT) 123-universe (DOT) com> wrote:

----- Original Message -----
From: lostinspace
Is it possible to define individual font sizes for each type in the family?
I'd like to define a 10pt font for Verdana while having the remainder of the
family options display at 12pt.

FONT-FAMILY: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

As a result is there a way possible to accomplish my inquiry?
Thanks in advance.

The best way is simply to define fonts of roughly the same size and
appearance. {FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;} should be fine
for nearly all readers. Verdana is best avoided - I think you've already
discovered the problem with it, from your question.

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Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/