Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-10-01 Thread Crest Christopher
The "$" symbol threw me off. Tom Livingston wrote: He means Google it. On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Crest Christopher mailto:crestchristop...@gmail.com>> wrote: Sorry, what do you mean by $search_engine_of_your_choice ? Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Oct 1, 2015, at

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-10-01 Thread Philip Taylor
Tom Livingston wrote: > He means Google it. [*] > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Crest Christopher wrote: > >> Sorry, what do you mean by $search_engine_of_your_choice ? [*] Statutory disclaimer : other search engine providers offer similar functionality. "Google" is a registered tradema

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-10-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
> On Oct 1, 2015, at 22:56, Tom Livingston wrote: > > He means Google it. Or DuckDuckGo it, or Bing it, or Yahoo it, or Yandex it, or… Let’s propagate a new verb: to searchengine. (darn, I didn’t think “$search_engine_of_your_choice“ would be so hard to understand) Philippe -- Philippe Witte

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-10-01 Thread Tom Livingston
He means Google it. On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry, what do you mean by $search_engine_of_your_choice ? > > > Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > >> On Oct 1, 2015, at 01:12, Crest Christopher >>> wrote: >>> >>> One must use @font-face eve

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-10-01 Thread Crest Christopher
Sorry, what do you mean by $search_engine_of_your_choice ? Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Oct 1, 2015, at 01:12, Crest Christopher wrote: One must use @font-face even if using fonts that are installed on the users machine and to which are local ? There is *never* a *must*. Using @font-face

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-10-01 Thread Philip Taylor
Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: >> How do I find what fonts are pre-installed on most mobile / tablet / >> desktops ? > > Have you tried $search_engine_of_your_choice? Sometimes that is useful > technology. > “font-list iOS”, “installed fonts Android”, etc, and any variation thereof. I cannot he

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-10-01 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
> On Oct 1, 2015, at 01:12, Crest Christopher > wrote: > > One must use @font-face even if using fonts that are installed on the users > machine and to which are local ? There is *never* a *must*. Using @font-face is an option among many (including not declaring any font-family. > How do I

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-30 Thread Tom Livingston
You can find some 'updated' lists on Google but there's nothing wrong with the standards of Arial, helvetica, Georgia, Times etc. On Wednesday, September 30, 2015, Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > One must use @font-face even if using fonts that are installed on the > us

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-30 Thread Crest Christopher
One must use @font-face even if using fonts that are installed on the users machine and to which are local ? How do I find what fonts are pre-installed on most mobile / tablet / desktops ? Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: On Sep 29, 2015, at 12:27, Crest Christopher wrote: When using @font-fami

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-29 Thread Freelance Traveller
On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:32:07 -0400, Crest Christopher wrote: >Must I need multiple types of the same font ? I only have one TTF ! Unfortunately, if you expect your font to be visible on multiple browsers, yes, you do need the multiple types, because not all browsers support all technologies, and

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-29 Thread Crest Christopher
Must I need multiple types of the same font ? I only have one TTF ! Tom Livingston wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Crest Christopher mailto:crestchristop...@gmail.com>> wrote: I meant the font-family property. The font-family property on the MDN web site mentions to list th

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-29 Thread Tom Livingston
On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Crest Christopher < crestchristop...@gmail.com> wrote: > I meant the font-family property. > > The font-family property on the MDN web site mentions to list the font > names when using font-family for a given selector, for example; > font-family: "",""; > > While t

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-29 Thread Crest Christopher
I meant the font-family property. The font-family property on the MDN web site mentions to list the font names when using font-family for a given selector, for example; font-family: "",""; While the font face property you can list the name of the font and if you're hosting the font, the URL o

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-29 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
On Sep 29, 2015, at 1:59 AM, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > >> On Sep 29, 2015, at 12:27, Crest Christopher >> wrote: >> >> When using @font-family is it placed within the rule as such; >> >> {@font-family {font-family properties} } ? > > Hmm, there is no such thing as a @font-family at-rul

Re: [css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-29 Thread Philippe Wittenbergh
> On Sep 29, 2015, at 12:27, Crest Christopher > wrote: > > When using @font-family is it placed within the rule as such; > > {@font-family {font-family properties} } ? Hmm, there is no such thing as a @font-family at-rule… Do you mean the font-family property, which takes a list of font-fam

[css-d] font-family declaring

2015-09-28 Thread Crest Christopher
When using @font-family is it placed within the rule as such; {@font-family {font-family properties} } ? -- .(-. Christopher .-). __ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/