Talk: Should "Font" be added to subject IDs
From Chris <mpu...@central.sussex.ac.uk>
· alt.ascii-art
· 9 Nov 1994 16:04 · View full thread
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Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote:
|> I have hesitated to add a "Font" subject ID, because it wouldn't be
|> good to have too many. But it seems like it makes sense.
|> On the one hand, a font can be line art or a Figlet font, so there can
|> be IDs like:
|> Line: Fiddler's Font
|> Binary: fiddlers.flf font
|> These are OK, but fonts are popular and different enough to seem to
|> justify a "Font" subject ID. What do you think?
I like this idea, fonts do seem to be becoming very popular. It could
be useful if used
Font: (flf)
Font: (line)
'cos then all would know which it was. It'd make life easier for those
of us running figlet for a network, as I could just automatically get
all the figlet fonts rather than searching for them.
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