The Bitstream VERA font, the first truely crossplatform solution

[Robert Brenstein]

>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.)
>--
>jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed at jaedworks.com
>http://www.jaedworks.com

This will be possible only when text attributes will become truly 
inherited. I mean individually inherited. As it is now, they are 
object/chunk attributes are now stored in sets (bundles of font name, 
size, and style). This should be an enhancement request but I don't 
recall seeing it in bugzilla.

Robert Brenstein