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| 77.1 | | CLOSET::UTT | | Fri Feb 03 1989 15:02 | 8 |
| The problem is we have no reverse numbers in the video fonts, as
we do in the Postscript and LN03 fonts. So I used a larger, bold
numeral -- which has worked well so far because callouts are used
primarily in code examples (no bf). I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks,
Mary
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| 77.2 | A bracketed number? | MTWAIN::SNOW | | Fri Feb 03 1989 17:58 | 9 |
| I'm not sure what possibilities are available in the video fonts.
Is there anything like the reverse numbers? Or are the video fonts
somewhat limited? Even a bracketed number would be better for our
purposes, but I'm not sure what's best for the Bookreader. What
about a different or larger font?
Thanks,
Joyce
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| 77.3 | | VAXUUM::UTT | | Sun Feb 05 1989 13:59 | 11 |
| The video font possibilities are limited. There is nothing like
reverse numbers. Brackets are a possibility. I could make the font
still larger but I'm not sure how that would look. A different font
might not work well: one problem with the video fonts is that, at
the low resolution of 75 dots per inch, there's not a lot of
differentiation between fonts. Hopefully, in the future DECwindows
will support more fonts and things like publishing and special
characters (such as reverse numbers). Higher resolution monitors
will also let us get better effects from fonts.
Mary
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| 77.4 | Looking for monospaced user input | BOOKIE::HIGGS | | Fri May 19 1989 14:27 | 24 |
| I have a <U> problem online which is a little different.
I document a word processing product which runs in bit mapped mode.
When I show examples of user input on the screen, especially in
relation to rulers, it is important that it be mono-spaced. For
example, the following example about setting tabs in a ruler is
from a Getting Started book. It is easy to reproduce here. The
first line shows the ruler. The rest of the lines show user input
and should be red print, or bolded for online:
L---T---------------T----------------------T----------------T--------------R
DATE CONFERENCE LOCATION HOTEL
May 1-31 New Markets London Claridge's
June 1-30 Personnel Perks Paris Georges
July 1-31 Encouraging Sales Sante Fe La Posada
Using the <interactive> tag, with <S> for the ruler and <U> for
the user input does not work because the bolded font is spaced
proportionally, so the alignment, and therefore the point of the
example, is lost. Any suggestions?
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| 77.5 | | DSSDEV::EPPES | I'm not making this up, you know | Fri May 19 1989 14:44 | 12 |
| RE <<< Note 77.4 by BOOKIE::HIGGS >>>
> Using the <interactive> tag, with <S> for the ruler and <U> for
> the user input does not work because the bolded font is spaced
> proportionally, so the alignment, and therefore the point of the
> example, is lost. Any suggestions?
What about using <code_example>, with <emphasis>(...\bold) around
the user input part? (Does <emphasis> work within <code_example>?)
Of course, this wouldn't give you the right output for hard copy...
-- Nina
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| 77.6 | | CLOSET::UTT | | Fri May 19 1989 15:56 | 14 |
| The bolded font is not proportionally space; both the usertext and
systemtext fonts are monospaced but the bolded characters are wider
(because they're bold - more pixels).
At the moment I don't think there is any way around this -- the only
way we have currently to differentiate user text and system text is
by a font change and *any* font change means different font metrics
which means your alignment will be off. Nina's suggestion will have the
same effect as the <U> tag.
I will give this some more thought but I'm not optimistic. At least
not for V1 of the Bookreader.
Mary
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