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Article #48021Re: Font menu SANITY!!
From: Roy Smith
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 13:46
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 1990 13:46
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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.
Here's a human interface question. Let's say you wanted to make a
4-level pull-right menu for fonts, so you can set family, size, weight, and
slant, i.e. Helvetica 18 demi oblique. The question is, which order do you
want to have them? Like I did above, or you you prefer Helvetica oblique
demi 18, or 18 Helvetica oblique demi, or .....
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