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From: spencer@eris.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Images & Icons (a modest proposal)
Message-ID: <3200@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 16-Apr-87 16:42:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr 16 16:42:19 1987
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In article <8704140657.AA14434@ingres.Berkeley.EDU> hatcher@INGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Doug Merritt) writes:
>Along these same lines (as long as I'm on my soapbox), any program that allows
>you to pick one of a number of fonts should ideally show the font itself in
>the menu. Seeing is believing, but you may not remember what font is
>represented by the names "emerald, usa, terminal, dotty, phoenix, klaxon" etc.
>	Doug Merritt          ucbvax!ingres!hatcher

I looked that this idea and liked it at first.  Many menus have the option
of bold in "bold", and the like for underline and italic.  But if you display
every font the system can put in your document you have to *load* every font
into ram, even more important, into Chip ram.  It would be better to leave 
fonts on disk unless really needed.

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