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# How nice for you
Have you considered using cut'n'paste, or 'pootling' as it's becoming known?
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:14, archived)
# Yeh i used cut and paste
.
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:15, archived)
# normal good old Helvetica
will do the job for that
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:17, archived)
# yeah, but
Helvetica is still a commercial font so you've got to rely on the free alternatives.....
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:22, archived)
# You mean
like Arial, and Verdana, and Tacoma, and stuff like that - hard-to-obtain fonts?

;-)
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:26, archived)
# Yup!
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:27, archived)
# Careful...
You'll get the tyographic fanatics going on at you about how evil Arial is...
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:27, archived)
# don't even mention
comic sans

oops!
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:31, archived)
# Comic Sans is perfect for older kids with
slow learning ability as well as kids of infant age who are just learning to read/write; over here it's the recognised font de jour for primary schools and other learning centres. It's just a pisser when adults use it thinking 'it's kewl'.

100% FACT!
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:34, archived)
# I never
knew...
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:35, archived)
# neither did I till icklewitchy started
learning to read and wifeof brought that news home from her school.....
(, Wed 9 Apr 2003, 0:43, archived)