Font Sizes

**Dr Unne** · 08-30-2002, 04:23 AM

I'll think about it. I don't really see the need though. I would save on board space if people said or just didn't use tons and tons of formatting tags in the first place.

**edczxcvbnm** · 08-30-2002, 04:29 AM

Why don't you just go to view and change the text size to large or extra large? That seems like the easiest solution to me.

Your text was pretty easy to read for me but the again I use 800 x 600 view.

Can anyone read this? I am writing stuff? Can you read this?

Those are not periods. That is just font size .1!

**The Man** · 08-30-2002, 04:30 AM

Unne: Having to type before each of my posts will not be much fun, though. There's no HTML tag that simulates that -- I have to type in all that CSS, which is no fun and a large use of board space. Yep.

Thanks for the consideration, though.

And ed: Yes, we can worry about people using size 1 in the csize tag, but that's as silly a worry as people using colour 000000 in the color tag, because why in hell would they do that if they wanted to communicate with each other? But reasonable font sizes add personality.

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, it'd make more sense if you made it so that [csize=110] would be like 11-pixel text, because if you made [csize=11] then it would be impossible to use fractional font sizes. Y'know. [11.5] would result in [11.50%], a value which is completely wrong. So disregard the zero in my earlier post.

Peace
Kilgore Trout

**edczxcvbnm** · 08-30-2002, 04:47 AM

What the hell is Csize? I used this.

< "This is here so it doesn't tag it" font size=7 style="font-size: .1pt;"> I am writing stuff? Can you read this?

Anyways what about just going to view and then click on "Text Size" and then click large or largest if you are having trouble with the size of the text? Wouldn't that fix the problem while you browse the forums?

I may not understand the problem but can't you go to microsoft.com and download Explorer 5.0 or 6.0 for the Mac?

Like I said I may be misunderstanding your problem here.

**Dr Unne** · 08-30-2002, 04:49 AM

My point is, why in the world do you need weird fractionally-sized CSS font sizes in the first place? I have a feeling you're the only person who's going to use this thing if I add it. I find it very unnecessary. vB codes are for things that people already do very frequently, to save them time. If I start adding codes for everyone who has a special way of posting, we're going to have a bajillion codes, and I'm going to have a severe headache and a cluttered vBB to mess with every time I want to change something.

**Citizen Bleys** · 08-30-2002, 02:00 PM

Not to mention that it requires storing extra info in the database. Since we've been having problems, I've stopped emptying the search index, and the db size is crawling back up to size.

Adding something to the database that precisely one person is going to use is simply not feasable.

Just copy your font style tags into a text file, and use copy/paste if you're that dead set on having a different text color. Personally, I don't think it's worth the effort. Plain ol' white is good enough for me.

**Big Ogre Umaro** · 08-30-2002, 09:38 PM

wtf just type in plain text

I read your post five times and two things have yet to happen: 1) knowing what the hell you're on about, and 2) figuring out how this is even in the smallest bit important, 3) caring, 4), learning to count.

**The Man** · 08-30-2002, 10:42 PM

Hi I won't be using colour this time. Thx BOU plz.

This is what happens when teh EoFF doesn't have a font size specified: .

This would be a better specification: , which is roughly equivalent to only it's specified in CSS.

This is what happens in some places, apparently, when a font size isn't defined. 

This is better, also defined in CSS. .

If I were to specify, for my own posts, , then it wouldn't resize. That = suck.

What I'm asking for is a [csize=110] tag to be shorthand for , which is what I'm using at the moment. That = r0x, if you ask me.

Maybe it's just me, but in my opinion, there's only two things as good as 10 px Verdana and 13 px Verdana, and those are 9 px Verdana, which is too small for anything but a signature, and 11 px Verdana, which is this. I use this in my posts, and it's a lot of HTML code. It's big. A winner is you. Editing posts = super uses up a lot more board space than [csize=110]A winner is you. Editing posts = super[/csize] would, especially when you realise that I'd be using that in pretty much every post. As I understand it, vB tags are really small. That's why you should care about that.

Replacing the stuff at the top, the "10 px" and "12 px" stuff, with "xx-small" and "x-small" respectively, would eliminate the resizing problems. That stuff would resize. Plus, 12 px Verdana, in my opinion, looks like crap compared to 13 px Verdana, which is what most people would be seeing when they looked at the revised EoFF tables.

I dunno. This is all super-complex CSS stuff, which I've been researching for the past week or so on the Internet, and I might be the only person on EoFF who actually understands it. So it goes. I hope not, though.

Peace
Kilgore Trout

**Dr Unne** · 08-30-2002, 11:25 PM

I understand, I just see no reason to bother with any of it. *joins BOU in not really caring at all about any of this* You're the only person in almost 3 years who's ever cared about this. I think you'll be the only one who ever does. If it's big enough to read I'm fine with it, and I'd have to imagine so are 99.999999% of the people here. I doubt I could even tell the difference between 12 point Verdana and 13 point Verdana, for example.

*pretty much done talking about this now*

**Big Ogre Umaro** · 08-30-2002, 11:35 PM

Oh man, thank you Carpie, I thought I was nuts. I get what you're saying now. I think the most I'd care to have done is changing the 12px's to something resize-friendly, but other than that, it's all a whole lotta nothin'.

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