Re: Designing a Better Font Selection Widget for use in Open Source Software
michael chang <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:22:16 -0400
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On 9/27/05, Edward H. Trager <[email protected]> wrote: > ... regarding a proposal for an improved font selection drop-down > widget that would be ideal for use in professional-quality Open Source > word processing, desktop publishing, and graphic design programs > http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontdialog/ As a user, this sounds like a very awesome proposal, and if implemented, would revolutionize font GUIs for users. I don't know whether it could cause a problem with Usability (e.g. Text to Speech systems) though... Just a note (and yes, I'm nit-picking), but there is no such thing as 'a Chinese pangram'. Chinese uses individual characters for every word (AFAIK), so you'll just have to choose some sample text that is representative of the language, or make some up. IIRC, Japanese has an alphabet, though, and Chinese has a sort of 'proununciation' alphabet (but that's seperate). -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable.