on 10/13/05 5:58 PM, Peter Williams at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That seems odd, I wonder if you have somehow written the > declaration wrong and gotten the system default sans-serif > in place of the intended Arial Narrow? > > I just made a quick test case in a local file and used the > following to see how it looks. > > CSS > .arialnarrow {font-family: "Arial Narrow";} > .arial {font-family: arial;} > .sansserif {font-family: sans-serif;} > > Markup > <p class="arialnarrow">Text sample here.</p> > <p class="arial">Text sample here.</p> > <p class="sansserif">Text sample here.</p> > > This behaved as I would have expected, with Arial Narrow > being very markedly condensed compared to the other two. > > What happens if you use Arial Narrow in a productivity > app like a word prcessor? Is it rendered narrower than > Arial in that case?
See link for sampling: <http://www.newgeo.com/web/css/fonts/fonts.html> As for the word processor, lets see: ah ha, I get it, A stock install of Windows XP, does NOT have Arial Narrow in it. I am a total windows noob, so I just did the default install in Virtual PC, I don't even know where the fonts are located at to look for the narrow. Ok, found then: Arial, Arial Black, Arial Bold, Arial Bold Italic, Arial Italic. So, I guess we can not rely on Arial Narrow being there, unless some other app has installed it. I suspect Word/Office does, but I do not have that installed, and can not assume everyone does. Thanks for helping me get to the bottom of this though. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Scott Haneda Tel: 415.898.2602 <http://www.newgeo.com> Novato, CA U.S.A. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/