The Information Overlaid Toolkit: ; Referance Manual Edition 2.4, for Information Overlaid Version 2.4; 27th April 2004
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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
Serif:font nameA serif font, e.g. Times
SansSerif:font nameA sans-serif font, e.g. Arial or Helvetica
Monospaced:font nameA typewriter style fixed-width font, such as Courier.
Dialog:font nameA 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
plain:font styleJust normal text
bold:font styleHeaver text
italic:font styleSlanted 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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