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Re: Line spacing not working

2009-11-10T20:10:09Z

In article <no.email-2F572D.08525210112.. .@news1.chem.utoronto.ca>,
...
For stuff that goes in the CODE element, for when I make like a 1940s
crime thriller writer, for certain graphic art projects...
Ah the ImageWriter II... a blast from my past. Btw, I still use a fairly
old Mac printer: 4/600 laser (smallish job by the standards of the day

Re: Line spacing not working

2009-11-10T16:30:08Z

1) Legacy
2) Bitmap fonts *.FON files are used for CMD window and boot sequence.
Many of these puppies where around in old DOS days...
8514fix.fon
8514fix0.fon
8514fixe.fon
8514fixg.fon
8514fixr.fon
8514fixt.fon
8514oem.fon
8514oem0.fon
8514oeme.fon
8514oemg.fon
8514oemr.fon
8514oemt.fon
8514sys.fon

Re: Line spacing not working

2009-11-10T13:52:53Z

In article <doraymeRidThis-7CD692.0937231 0112...@news.albasani.net>,
All versions of MS Windows, or only specific ones? I am somewhat
surprised to find that MS has not upgraded Courier - the change
from bitmap to TrueType Courier happened on the Mac eons ago!
How often do you actually use Courier, and what do you use if for?

Re: Line spacing not working

2009-11-09T22:37:24Z

In article
<Pine.LNX.4.64.0911091702180.2 7...@sarge.rrzn.uni-hannover.d e>,
OK, thanks. I will try to remember this. Does this not mean that Macs
like mine who have both fonts are to be condemned to New Courier for
websites? New Courier is an efficient monospace font, taking up less
space for sure, but lacking that old fashioned typewriter look.

Re: Line spacing not working

2009-11-09T18:11:45Z

I wondered where you were going with this thread...
One can not presume the type of the fonts installed on any system. For
example, fonts on my systems are only Type 1, OpenType (PostScript), or
TrueType -- there are no bitmap fonts at all. So, the Courier family on my
system is a Type 1 font (and has been for the last 25 or so years). This is

Re: How to put scrollbars on a

2009-11-09T17:24:33Z

Beautiful! Around Boston MA USA we might say that it works pissah.
Thank you, Gus and BenC.
-- ben

Re: Line spacing not working

2009-11-09T16:10:38Z

You cannot see this on Macintosh.
On MS Windows, "Courier New" is a TrueType font family whereas
"Courier" is an old bitmap font. You can see the difference
more easily with italic type.
Therefore authors should never specify
font-family: Courier, "Courier New", monospace
but only
font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace

Re: How to put scrollbars on a

2009-11-09T07:01:14Z

I kinda liked it, but with a large viewport, the div extends
unnecessarily without any content. Then also with a very small viewport,
the div will be extremely small.
bottom:100px;max-height:400px; min-height:50px; or thereabouts would also
be apropos to set the min and max height of the div.

Re: How to set line height in a paragraph (line-height not working)

2009-11-08T19:10:07Z

Test wrote:
You have been duly flamed for the 12px.
Now please receive some additional flames for posting a CSS question to an
HTML newsgroup.
As an extra bonus, you receive complimentary flames for using monkey Latin
pseudo-dummy text in a context where it is manifestly a bad test string. For
line height considerations, diacritic marks (as in Å, ç, É for example) as

Re: How to put scrollbars on a

2009-11-08T18:30:16Z

Yes, but still won't help if the viewport is < 100px + 20em (or
thereabouts). The fixed div will scroll, but you still won't be able to
see the bottom of it.
Better to set bottom than height if OP leaves it fixed position.

Re: How to put scrollbars on a

2009-11-08T18:28:57Z

It will if you make the help div position: absolute rather than
position: fixed.
Then don't bother with overflow: scroll on the help div (it doesn't get
overflowed anyway, since it's height: auto).
An alternative would be to leave the help div fixed and overflow:
scroll, but give it bottom: 100px or so, so it always fits inside the

Re: How to put scrollbars on a

2009-11-08T14:45:08Z

You must have a WIDTH and HEIGHT specified for the <div id="help"> in
order for the scrollbars to function. You do have width:75%; specified
but no height. Logic should tell you that in that scenario there will be
no horizontal scrollbar if there is only justifiable text. Logic should
also tell you that there will be no vertical scrollbar without a HEIGHT

Re: How to put scrollbars on a

2009-11-08T02:32:47Z

Dang! Line 1154. Sorry, I'll post the whole thing again, this time
making sure of the line number:
Hi everyone --
The problem page is:
[link]
and the line in question is 1154.
The 'Help!' button does a display:block; of a few paras of help text.
Because that now-displayed text sometimes overflows the viewport, I

Re: How to put scrollbars on a

2009-11-07T22:10:11Z

There are only 1,205 lines in the file.

Re: Why doesn't this zoom in IE7?
2009-11-07T11:51:03Z
Yes, I accept and agree with all you say.
But I still need to know why in this (admittedly misguided) case what
I've done (or not done) to cause IE7, alone among three tested
browsers, to NOT ZOOM the top part of the page, including the
putative, so called "column headers."
To put it another way: it seems to me (for the mo) that I'm entitled