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In article <20938@bellcore.bellcore.com> sdh@flash.UUCP (Stephen D Hawley) writes:
>In article <1990Mar14.134618.12628@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>>In <3262@pur-phy> sho@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>>> Ideally, the user would be able to pick a font, and then pick a style from
>>> a popup or an h-menu.  If Super-Extra-Heavy-Bold exists, it should show up
>>> in the menu.

>Please don't do this.  Honestly.  It is NOT a win in human factors in the
>least.
>
>A better approach is to pop up a dialog box with 3 lists (font, style, size),
>an area of editable text for a demo, and an ok and cancel button.  The win is
>that most font changes require more than one change in the font.

Yes, I agree with you, but there is nothing wrong with doing it both
ways.  It seems that most modern word processors have a character 
format dialog box to supplement the menu choices.

However, I can't think of any one type of attribute (font, size, style) that
I could honestly say was not neccesary in a menu form.  You switch between 
normal and italics, you switch between 24 point and 12 point, you switch
between Garamond and Courier.  What's wrong with menus *and* an all-inclusive
dialog?

-Sho
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