[wp-hackers] Setup fonts might be a tiny bit above average size under some circumstances (was: Setup font madness)

[Mark Shields]

Troll often?

The point he was trying to make that with a properly configured linux box,
your fonts will look just fine. I use Gentoo on my home PC, and with some
work I was able to make the fonts look almost identical to their windows
counterparts.

On 11/4/05, Mark Rosenstand <mark at borkware.net> wrote:
>
> Short: The problem is that WordPress uses "font-size: 1.7em;" for the
> text fields and buttons.
>
> Long (and rude because of know-all attitude):
>
> Roy Schestowitz cluelessly wrote:
> > _____/ On Thu 03 Nov 2005 23:43:37 GMT, [Mark Rosenstand] wrote :
> > \_____
> >
> > > Hey list,
> > >
> > > I was wondering if you are aware of how ugly the WordPress setup is
> > > on a default GNOME desktop.
> > >
> > > http://borkware.net/~mark/wp-setup.png
> > > http://borkware.net/~mark/wp-login.png
> >
> > Putting aside the fact that "madness" is an overstatement to describe
> > what I see above,
>
> Sorry, fixed.
>
> > it is a matter of which distribution you happen to be using.
>
> Standard fonts are distributed with X.org <http://X.org>.
>
> > It varies depending on which fonts you happen to have installed.
>
> Not if you test with the standard fonts of the most common
> operating systems instead of assuming that the entire world uses
> Microsoft's fonts.
>
> > I agree, however, that font sets can always be made more generous.
>
> No need to, the standard ones are both excellent and plenty.
>
> > Have you in- stalled any TrueType fonts packages yet?
>
> $ find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts -name '*.ttf' |wc -l
> 22
>
> > If not, you are likely to see more of the same in other Web sites.
>
> No, the rest of the web looks great, just like it has done for the
> past six years. But of course the rest of the web isn't doing this:
>
> <style type="text/css">
> #log, #pwd, #submit {
> font-size: 1.7em;
> }
> </style>
>
> > I have just tried Ubuntu (GNOME) on a remote host, just as a proof of
> > con- cept. It all looked fine to me, i.e. no low-resultion fonts.
>
> Ubuntu isn't a standard.
>
> > Catering for each individual distro (they come with different fonts)
> > is hard. The least you can do is download more packages of font.
>
> It must be really hard to be a web developer with all those evil Linux
> distributions. Oh boy am I glad you are willing to share your deep
> insight with me. But please don't mind doing so in the future.
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