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From: joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Outline fonts and Font sizes
Keywords: System 7.0 fonts
Message-ID: <818@gistdev.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 89 20:20:21 GMT
References: <7994@microsoft.UUCP> <35525@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee)
Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL
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In article <35525@apple.Apple.COM> han@Apple.COM (Byron Han) writes:
>In article <7994@microsoft.UUCP> benw@microsoft.UUCP (Benjamin Waldmin) writes:
>>But what happens when outline fonts come along?  Does RealFont always
>>return TRUE for any size of an outline font?  If so, then what kind
>>of menu/list box should one build--how many sizes should it include, and
>>what point sizes should those be?  
>
>          [.....]  Being able to nudge up the font size (or nudge down)
>by 1 point increments in a word processor would be nice.  [.....]

Well, yes, it would be, but don't do this exclusively -- this is my one
gripe with WriteNow 2.0.  It gives you the "standard sizes" you expect like
9, 10, 12, 14, 18, etc., along with choices to go "Larger" or Smaller" by
1-point.  That means if I want a size like 28 that isn't on this list, I have
to go 24, Larger, Larger, Larger, Larger.  I wish instead they gave you an
"Other" choice where you could type the size.  Both "nudge" and "Other" would
be OK, but don't give us just "nudge".  I suppose that (as you stated), the
MacDraw II solution where the user defines the menu is best.

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