Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Font menu SANITY!! Message-ID: <1990Mar14.134618.12628@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 14 Mar 90 13:46:18 GMT References: <1990Mar12.234628.22333@cs.umn.edu> <3262@pur-phy> Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 15 In <3262@pur-phy> sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes: > Ideally, the user would be able to pick a font, and then pick a style from > a popup or an h-menu. If Super-Extra-Heavy-Bold exists, it should show up > in the menu. Here's a human interface question. Let's say you wanted to make a 4-level pull-right menu for fonts, so you can set family, size, weight, and slant, i.e. Helvetica 18 demi oblique. The question is, which order do you want to have them? Like I did above, or you you prefer Helvetica oblique demi 18, or 18 Helvetica oblique demi, or ..... -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"