Re: ACM Ada Letters

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

O.K., but that still only means the editors of a journal really need to 
support only a small handful of fonts. Times (and its variants for 
OpenOffice, etc.) Arial/Helvetica (same variants) and Courier (same 
variants). One ought to be able to load some fonts that are supported 
for OpenOffice and perhaps some other word processors that don't come 
shipped with these. I have a pile of fonts that came with my PC and I 
loaded up a bunch more. Most of the word processing things that run on 
my PC seem to be able to find that directory and recognize these fonts. 
Is it different in the Unix/Linux world?

When I started using OpenOffice it managed to recognize all my usual PC 
fonts, including Times New Roman and Arial (and a bunch of wierd ones 
obtained as freebies from the Internet) so its not impossible to make it 
work. I don't know what it does in Unix/Linux platforms, but I've got to 
believe there are equivalents for Unix/Linux that would be good 
substitutes. So you pick your platform, get a set of acceptable fonts 
loaded on it and say "This is what I can work with - make sure your 
submissions comply."

BTW, I don't much like Courier & would rather use Lucida Console, but 
for the sake of commonality, I'd cave in. :-)

As for OpenOffice? I like that a lot since it disconnects me from the 
Microsoft/Borg. Perhaps if more journals, etc., were to start accepting 
.SXW files we'd get The Revolution started. ;-)

MDC

Marius Amado Alves wrote:
> 
> 
> What's wrong is that these fonts are not "common". For example
> OpenOffice does not have them. So please relax the limitation to
> 
>  Variable size serif font resembling Times, Time New Roman
>  Variable size sans serif font resembling Helvetica, Arial
> 
> to which I would add
> 
>  Fixed size font resembling Courier, Courier New
> 
> for source code.
> 


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