[Search for users] [Overall Top Noters] [List of all Conferences] [Download this site]

Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

Title:Online Bookbuilding
Notice:This conference is write-locked: see note 1.3.
Moderator:VAXUUM::UTT
Created:Fri Aug 12 1988
Last Modified:Mon Jul 15 1991
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:440
Total number of notes:2134

181.0. "Asterisks in tables turned into x's" by BOOKIE::DUNCAN () Tue Aug 08 1989 15:16

    
    I have a table with asterisks in the rows.  The asterisks look like
    tiny x's online, but are definitely asterisks in the hard copy
    version.
    
    - Donna
T.RTitleUserPersonal
Name		DateLines
181.1CLOSET::UTTTue Aug 08 1989 18:107
    The asterisk characters look differently online because the DECwindows
    video fonts use different characters, tuned for the lower resolution
    monitor (75 dots per inch for the monitor as opposed to 300 dots per
    inch for laser printers). Fewer dots mean less detail to the
    characters in general.
    
    Mary
181.2Some are *, some are xORION::DUNCANTue Aug 15 1989 17:5111
    
    Hi Mary - I wish it was the resolution.  The problem is that
    the asterisks look like asterisks online everywhere, except
    in the one table.  In that table only, they look like x's.
    
    Is there something in the table tag that says to make asterisks 
    into x's?
    
    - Donna
181.3CLOSET::UTTWed Aug 16 1989 11:025
    Tables use a sans serif font, whereas the text font elsewhere is serif.
    So what you see in tables is what is in the sans serif font for
    asterisks. 
    
    Mary