From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,de0abe9655235740 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-07 06:48:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3FABB0A0.6000001@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACM Ada Letters References: <1065708924.347689@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F864440.7070203@noplace.com> <8pWdnd8im8ToEzeiRVn-iw@gbronline.com> <3FAB95B6.9070008@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:48:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.247.70.209 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1068216493 165.247.70.209 (Fri, 07 Nov 2003 06:48:13 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 06:48:13 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2202 Date: 2003-11-07T14:48:13+00:00 List-Id: 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. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "So if I understand 'The Matrix Reloaded' correctly, the Matrix is basically a Microsoft operating system - it runs for a while and then crashes and reboots. By design, no less. Neo is just a memory leak that's too hard to fix, so they left him in... The users don't complain because they're packed in slush and kept sedated" -- Marin D. Condic ======================================================================