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From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] new links binary+source
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On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote:

> > Fonts becomes very nice,=20
>=20
> Links seems to use only one size of fonts for text?
> People demand much when one becomes satisfied.=E2=98=BA

http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~mirtchov/screenshots/varfont.png

you'll have to wait a bit more for this one -- most of the fonts with goo=
d
variable sizes don't have very good utf glyph coverage, unless you want t=
o
use non-standard fonts (for plan9 at least) such as efont or 10646.

in my estimation we need about 10-12 different heights from each differen=
t
font that people may be thinking of using to cover a reasonable set of
people's desires..

i believe work is being done to remedy that problem.=20