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Posted by dorayme on 03/31/07 03:38
In article <eiir039psurc4k241f1lab9tblanlk9rpm@4ax.com>,
Cogito <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote:
> >Part of Office, as I wrote earlier. It used to be freely downloadable, but
> >that was years ago. As I tried to explain, using the chess queen characters
> >can be viewed by people who either have Office installed (with "Arial
> >Unicode MS" installed with it) or have downloaded and installed the
> >"Code2000" font. That's far from universality, but not particularly poor
> >coverage, and you previously wrote that the pages are primarily for your
> >local use.
>
> For a moment I thought that with this font I may have the best of both
> worlds. After re-reading your earlier post I do realise that you had
> mentioned Office. My son actually has office on his computer but
> perhaps it is an older release. I'm using Office 2007 and it is
> certainly there.
Do consider a graphic, you can get the queen in many ways. One
way is to choose a large font, get that queen character however
and screenshot it. Prepare it as a png or gif and try specifying
its width in % terms in the css for placement in the table cell.
This will get you some respectable scaling. Worth having a decko
at.
I know that this sort of thing works particularly well when
viewed in a browser like Safari or FF on a Mac with the display
card/OS technology, it is not as brilliant in IE on a Windows
machine (but then, most fonts also look more "bit-mapped" on
these machines after coming from a modern Mac).
Look at:
<http://members.optushome.com.au/droovies/test/chessGifScaling.htm
l>
Depending on whether you just give a width or a width and a
height, you get some interesting results. I have just used a gif
that was handy, imagine a nice queen instead. And look at this in
Firefox. Change the browser text size. Also good in Safari. All
hell breaks loose in iCab, Opera is strange, strange, strange
(but this is not a browser I am familiar with, though I
understand it is very classy).
There might be other ways to control scaling here, you might have
to investigate Andy Dingley's table too. Just some thoughts for
you.
You can also do some of this stuff in em based dims (yes, for the
pics as Alan Flavell once pointed out. There are threads about
this somewhere. I miss this Scot). You might then have to look at
styling the table in same.
--
dorayme
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