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Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font.
Date 2021-02-17 18:10 +0100
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On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:52:33AM -0800, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
>     From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>     Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 09:57:24 +0100
> > If all you want is a serif font and care to be portable, your best
> > choice will be to specify a generic "serif", like so:
> > 
> >   font-family: serif
> 
> Will try that, thanks.  
> 
> Really, two attributes are involved: serifing and spacing.
> Specification of both should be possible.  Eg. 
> font-family: serif & monospace
> font-family: sans-serif & monospace
> font-family: serif & varispace
> font-family: sans-serif & varispace

Note that in this context, 'serif' isn't an attribute, but a "generic
font family". Namely the one where you'll find Times and sisters.

So unless the browser is downright malicious it'll pick a non-monospaced
font. If it's malicious, its user will hopefully know...

Cheers
 - t

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Serifed, variable-pitch font. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-02-16 06:00 +0100
  Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-02-16 09:30 +0100
    Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-02-17 17:30 +0100
  Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-16 10:00 +0100
    Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-02-17 17:40 +0100
      Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-17 18:10 +0100
        Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-02-18 21:40 +0100
          Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-02-18 21:50 +0100
            Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-18 22:00 +0100
              Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. "James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@touchtonecorp.com> - 2021-02-18 23:30 +0100
          Re: Serifed, variable-pitch font. Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-02-18 21:50 +0100

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