Re: Pointless 2.01 (how many is enough?)

[taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <C6BBtn.In7@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, St. Michael  writes...
> 
> taob@r-node.hub.org (Brian Tao) writes:
> 
> >:Calvin:System:Fonts:
> 
> Mines Calvin too!  =)

    I noticed a number of people named their partitions after Calvin
and/or Hobbes!  Yesterday, I changed my first two drive icons to small
faces of Calvin and Hobbes, respectively.  The Truetype font
"DavysOtherDingbats" has many cartoon characters (Doonesbury, Far Side,
Peanuts, C&H, etc.)  If you set the size to around 80 and then reduce it
vertically by half (to get the proper aspect ratio on a 640 screen),
you'll get a perfectly-sized drive icon.  :)  Heck, if everyone is
naming their drives "Calvin" and "Hobbes", I'm going to change mine to
"Calvin", "TracerBullet", "SpacemanSpiff" and "StupdendousMan" .  Or
maybe "Calvin", "Hobbes", "Susie" and "Biff" (with the appropriate
icons, of course).  So there.  ;-)

> >   4 Garamond.12BI      1 LucidaBright*
> 
> Could post these two or tell me where to get them?

    Umm... you can pay lots of money and buy Apple's Font Pack 1 (sp?)
from your local Mac(tm) dealer... Or find one of the new LaserWriters
and yank/convert the fonts from there...

> Beside that's why we have the "Select font" option in AWGS.

    But that doesn't preserve the style and size of the selection. 
Everything gets zapped to the exact same font.  If all I want to do is
change the typeface, I can't use "Choose Font...".

> BTW: Stuttgart at 9pt is easy to read on your screen unlike Times 12pt. 
> :)

    You should see Garamond Narrow at 12 point.  It's as bad on the
screen as Times 9.  ;-)
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