Convincing a harvester (was on SqF list)

Daniel Vainsencher danielv at netvision.net.il
Tue May 6 10:07:28 UTC 2003


See part 2 of the reply to Marcus.

Daniel

"Richard A. O'Keefe" <ok at cs.otago.ac.nz> wrote:
> Daniel Vainsencher <danielv at netvision.net.il> wrote:
> 	> > > * TrueType text style
> 	> [It provides support for beautiful fonts, as an example, you can see
> 	> Diegos look enhancements]
> 	...
> 	I don't think it should go into the image. Anyone differs?
> 	
> Whyever not?  When you get past all the newbie problems,
> "how do I get decent fonts" has to be one of the most Frequently Asked
> Questions.
> 
> Given that the fonts that normally come with Squeak do not scale to
> take the screen resolution into account, anyone using a 90 dpi monitor
> (and I have no others) really REALLY wants a replacement for the Squeak
> fonts where "10 point" really means "10 point" and not 8 point.
> 
> Even the Accufonts package doesn't remedy that, if I've installed it
> correctly.  It seems silly that I should have about 54 fonts on my
> system that everything can get at *except* Squeak...
> 
> Things like URI and Network support are important, but fonts are something
> _everyone_ sees _every time_.



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