The Information Overlaid Toolkit: ; Referance Manual Edition 2.2, for Information Overlaid Version 2.3; 25th October 2002
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Fonts

Only a limited range of fonts are guaranteed to be available on all browsers on all types of machine, and these have been given standard names in Java. Information Overlaid uses these standard font names:

Table 3-1. Font Names

namedescription
SerifA serif font, eg Times
SansSerifA sans-serif fant, eg Arial or Helvetica
MonospacedA typewriter style fixed-width font, such as Courier.
DialogA font used in popups on the users system
As well as a name you need to specify a `style' for the font, recognised styles are:

Table 3-2. Font Styles

styledescription
plainJust normal text
boldHeaver text
italicSlanted text with different letter forms.
A complete font specification for Information Overlaid is of the form: NAME/STYLE/SIZE, for example Serif/bold/12 or Dialog/plain/16.

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