Am 2001-03-18 um 21:50 h UCT hat Carl W. Brown geschrieben:
> Since you appear to be targeting the Windows platform, have you considered
> using the mlang font linking?
Please, don't use a proprietary HTML extension! The idea of the WWW
is that the offers can be properly interpreted on any platform, with
any standard-conforming software. If an author uses proprietary ex-
tensions, a considerable number of prospective readers will be locked
out. For example, Microsoft's font linking will just work with Inter-
net Explorer, but not with most other brands of browsers, even on a
Windows platform.
On 2001-03-13, Bob Hecht had written:
> The content on our site will be delivered in either full text
> or via PDF for print output. [...] The full text will be [...]
> rendered on screen via XSL style sheets.
> Our long term solution is to provide to our users an "STM subset" of the
> Unicode character set. [...] The Microsoft Ariel Unicode font would be
> perfect, except that its 13 MB to download and about 23 MB to install,
> which makes it somewhat of a problem to provide via the internet.
I think, offering a font file for download is an additional courtesy to
the reader, but you should not try to force on your audience the exact
font, size, colour, or other aspects of visual style. Every user has
his/her own requirements and preferences. E. g., on my Unix display,
I use nominally larger print to compensate for the smaller pixel size;
on my PC I prefer Tahoma for display but Times New Roman for print-outs,
for reasons of better legibility. Cf.
<http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/webhints.html#author>
<http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~mudws/font.html>.
On 2001-03-13, Bob Hecht had also written:
> We are hoping we can come up with (or create) a character set that
> encompasses the following code pages:
> * Greek Extended 1F00 - 1FFF
> * Superscripts and Subscripts 2070 - 209F
> * Number Forms 2150 - 218F
> * Arrows 2190 - 21FF
> * Mathematical Operators 2200 - 22FF
> * Miscellaneous Technical 2300 - 23FF
> and likely 2 or 3 other sets that we have to evaluate.
It would perhaps be a good idea to indicate the range of characters used
to the prospective reader (e. g. in an introductory note on the portal
page), so they can get appropriate fonts (cf.
<http://www.hclrss.demon.co.uk/unicode/fonts.html> and set their browsers
accordingly.
TITUS Cyberbit Basic <http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/unicode/tituut.asp>
seems to comprise most of what you need.
Best wishes,
Otto Stolz
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