Re: web-safe fonts & characters 2014

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

I'm not looking for a character set reference and I'm not designing a web site.

I'm looking for a dotted or slashed zero I can use in the code
listings in my docs that will display properly on *all* in-house and
customers' systems (which means Mac, Linux, and Windows) in all of the
deliverables generated by my single-source tool chains.

It's easy to make that happen on *some* systems.

Using web fonts in Confluence is a hack, and not supported by the
tools I use to generate web help. Maybe I could hack those as well, if
I had time.

On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:21 AM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Back to your original question, you're looking for a character set reference
> and the problem is that not all fonts offer a dotted or slashed zero glyph.
>
> The Wikipedia page lists a few font names that offer the glyph which are
> common to operating systems, but admits that the glyph's presence depends on
> whether the designer included it or not.
>
> http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashed_zero
>
> I use Andale Mono. Any computer with MS Office installed should have it.
> Then cascading fallbacks for different OSes would cover you somewhat.
>
> So if you have that much control over CSS why can't you use @font-face and
> supply your own files?
>
> -Tony
>
>
> On Thursday, August 7, 2014, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> wrote:
>>
>> Confluence is open source (!=free) so you can have as much control as
>> you're nerdy enough to take, but for practical reasons I stick as
>> close to the defaults as possible and tweak the CSS only to fix
>> problems.
>>
>> https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Styling+Confluence+with+CSS
>>
>> "Web-safe" isn't just about fonts, it's about which characters you can
>> use reliably. Having missing-glyph icons appear in your online help
>> doesn't look very professional.
>>
>> Serif, sans-serif, and monospace are generic font keywords used by
>> font-family, not fonts.
>>
>>
>

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