Re: Unicode HTML, download

From: Doug Ewell (dewell@adelphia.net)
Date: Sun Nov 21 2004 - 13:10:58 CST

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I wrote:

> The best advice for Elaine's situation becomes simpler. To maximize
> the likelihood that readers will see the right glyphs, add a "font-
> family" style line that lists a variety of available fonts, in
> decreasing order of coverage and attractiveness.

Actually, of course, the only way to *guarantee* that readers will see
the right glyphs is to chuck HTML altogether and create a PDF file.

-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/

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