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From: mpuj0@central.sussex.ac.uk (Chris)
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Subject: Talk: Should "Font" be added to subject IDs
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Bob Allison (boba@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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