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Article #48061Re: Font menu SANITY!!
From: Jay Henry Lieske
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 01:48
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 1990 01:48
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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. >> >> [roy smith wonders about multilevel hierarchical menus] > >Please don't do this. Honestly. It is NOT a win in human factors in the >least. > [stephen hawley says no to multi-h.menus, yes to dialogs] I think it would be a pain to go to a dialog every time I wanted some special version of Helvetica. Why not give each font name in the menu a single submenu with all possible styles? With Times, there would be four options, with Helvetica 12 or so. Styles like outline and underline could go in another menu. To minimize mouse-moving, the last chosen style in the submenu would be the default. -- Jay Lieske | Department of Geology jhlieske@phoenix.princeton.edu | Princeton University in exile in central jersey | Princeton, NJ 08544
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!mailrus!purdue!ames!think!samsung!aplcen!haven!udel!princeton!phoenix!jhlieske From: jhlieske@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Henry Lieske) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Font menu SANITY!! Summary: Oh no, not another dialog! Message-ID: <14536@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 15 Mar 90 01:48:32 GMT References: <cZyo5eC00WBLE1o1kH@andrew.cmu.edu> <1990Mar12.234628.22333@cs.umn.edu> <3262@pur-phy> <1990Mar14.134618.12628@phri.nyu.edu> <20938@bellcore.bellcore.com> Reply-To: jhlieske@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Henry Lieske) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 26