Colleagues might like to know that NetScape version 3b5 and InterNet Explorer 2.0.1 (Mac versions, I don't know about other hardware) both support the display of Greek characters. Good news!
<P>This is some <FONT FACE="symbol">greek</FONT> text</P>
Where I've written "symbol" you can write a comma delimited list of fonts and if one of them is available, presumably the first, then it gets used by the browser.
Could someone please tell me what the font names are on non-Mac platforms that are equivalent to the Mac symbol font (which contains Greek letters)? and
This is great news! But I have a couple questions: 1) Is there a list of the fonts and other reference material for these symbols? 2) How does the symbol look on non-supported browsers? Anyone know?
The symbol degrades to the unual default Browser font if not supported (ie a for alpha). I have been trying to get it to work on Unix systems. (The symbol face by the way is the same on NT, 95, Unix and Mac!!). Symbol is only available on X11 R6, and Netscape 3.0b5 does not seem to pick it up. I suspect it is deep inside the X preferences definition. If anyone learns how to make the symbol font work on Unix, please let this forum know. Basically, this is still a kludge. The "correct" solution is to use 16-bit (Unitype) character sets, which are still some way away. Dr Henry Rzepa, Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, LONDON SW7 2AY; rzepa@ic.ac.uk; Tel (44) 171 594 5774; Fax: (44) 171 594 5804. URL: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ (Eudora Pro 3.0) ----- chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. Archived as: http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To unsubscribe, send to listserver@ic.ac.uk the following message; unsubscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)