[Xerte] Font stuff

[Julian Tenney]

You can get so far with styles - not sure about the 'followed' one.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 11 January 2011 12:35
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Font stuff


The followed link colour change convention used  everywhere else on the www.
;-)
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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:23:46 +0000
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Font stuff
What do you mean?

<a href="balh.com">Click here</a>

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 11 January 2011 12:23
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Font stuff


I guess none of the link stuff is supported by Flash right?

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From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:56:19 +0000
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Font stuff
Use system fonts if you can and use the ones we know look OK. Embedded fonts look great, but need a lot more work, and they tend to look good at bigger sizes: at small sizes they look smudged to me. That's my preference anyway: I don't really have any complaint with Verdana.

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: 11 January 2011 11:54
To: Xerte list
Subject: [Xerte] Font stuff


Any suggestions as to the preferred font to use in an academic piece?

System vs embedded?
System fonts look like schmoe to me, but embedding them requires all sorts of acrobatics if you have various tags, <i> <b> etc.

And any way to get internal links to use hover and/or followed link colour conventions?
I've tried a few .css things but no luck, and trapping, colouring and rewriting them is a PITA.

Cheers;

Dave

p.s. for you folks working under the hood, Julian introduced me to the speedy world of code in components.
A routine that was taking 8 seconds :-( within Xerte now takes .035 when run compiled inside a component.
Zoom zoom.

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