Instructions For Posting in DU in Cursive

Under your browser, Preferences, go to:

Content --> Default Font --> "Lucida Handwriting" or "Brush Script MT" (anyone got any other suggested fonts?)

Content --> Advanced --> UNCHECK the option "Allow pages to choose their own fonts".

Go back to Times and recheck the selection to undo.

Try it for a period of time, it's fun and could be a good mental exercise for those of us
uncomfortable with pen and paper. After all, the more you experience something, the better
you get at duplicating it. In the words of the immortal Chimperor, Monkey see monkey do...

We geriatric cases can swap seekrit msgs right out in the open.. ;)

If you go to Preferences, use a different default Browser Font,

but leave the box checked where it says "allow the site (DU) to override user fonts."

And then type a message with (font face=foo)embedded in it.(/font)

The browser will print it out in the default user font, and DU will not override the default user font if the font tag typed in the message window is not one that the browser recognizes, so it will use the user font instead, but display all other text in DU's own font. e.g.

(font face=foo)Sample text(/font)

where foo is an unrecognized font.

This will have no effect on other people's view of the page... Only us super-secret font geeks...

Well, it may show up as Times instead of Helvetica.

Note that all of this goes against the wishes of HTML experts who insist on the primacy of the published text as it appears on the publisher's computer should appear the same on all users computers or else it is a violation of the webmaster's (i.e. corporation's) artistic vision! Hence, add-ons such as Greasemonkey publish scripts that allow you to color between the lines of corporate websites as they display on your browser. They get no love from corporate sitemasters!

Ooh, one other thing -- on a lot of browsers you can now choose a default font for Serif (Times), Sans Serif (Helvetica) and Monospace (Courier i.e. typewriter font)!

That's what I thought you might be talking about but I wasn't really paying much attention to the technical part, I have enough problem being understood in the normal DU font.

:hi:

Ah, I can use "Edwardian Script ITC"... that has the best effect. But only if I do step 2, do not allow site to replace user font, and step 3, increase the font size under View > Text Size because Edwardian Script font is bizarrely small! It makes everything on the site like this! Including posts by people who hate cursive! & thread titles! & post buttons! Ha ha!

:hi:

:shrug:

This Lucida Handwriting doesn't look really cursivey.

:shrug:

Don't you hate it when a font is the perfect font but only available in bold, DAMMIT? :shrug: </andyrooney> </designgeek>

Isn't really either, huh?


weird

You need to accommodate the fact that various pairs
of letters connect in varying ways, and a font can't
do that.

How about this instead?



Tesha

can recognize a Rings Trilogy font anytime!

http://www.sci.fi/~alboin/tengwar.htm

I thought that was made standard in computers ages ago.

On edit: Hmm, I guess not. Why is it Google allows Tengwar as an option but Firefox does not?

<-- generated font

The Problem of Tengwar on Websites

Displaying tengwar on your website is a problem. Since there is no Unicode standard for the tengwar, you can’t just type something in tengwar as you could with other scripts such as the кириллица, the ᚱᚢᚾᛁᚲ script, or the أبجدية عربية. Instead, you have to use a workaround, either recurring to images or embedded fonts. However, both solution have their drawbacks.

Recurring to images (for instance hello world tengwar sample text) means loosing flexibility. This concerns the author of the website as much as the website’s visitor. For the author, flexibility is lost because integrating tengwar images into other text will break the normal text flow. For the visitor, flexibility is lost because normal text operations such as copying or changing the font size are not possible with images.

Embedded fonts (for instance  ) allow keeping all flexibility. The drawback is that this method will not work on all browsers. However, things look much better at the beginning of 2010 than they did only one year ago. Recent versions of major web browsers support embedded fonts.

Honest question BTW.

I do know that the particular off-shoot of Firefox that
I'm running at this instant doesn't seem to render those
Unicode code points correctly.

Tesha

:evilgrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO3ZbQiGNkk">SNARF! SNARF! SNARF! (warning: World's most annoying video)

...any of us snuck over to Free Republic.

;-)

Tesha

Frodo Lives!

In the Common Tongue it reads, close enough: "Badass Motherfucker"

May his name be cursed.

Kinda cursive looking.

Go figure. But I found one called "Script"

And that one is as close to cursive as I've seen.

Testing, testing Script font...

Hmmm, and I don't have that one.

more swear words were available here than at his site.:rofl:

They pick up enough of that shit at home! Imagine all the cursive words they could learn :D

:D

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pretty much illegible. As I continue to recover from the Guillain-Barre Syndrome hopefully my handwriting will improve.

...in the same section as Default Font under "Advanced..." next to the Default Font menu (should say "Times 12 point")

or it may be in a separate section of the Preferences window marked "Advanced..."

Sadly, without a separate add-on such as Greasemonkey, The Powers That Be won't let you set your own fonts and colors on a page by page basis. Boo!!!!! ;)

And just so I don't get blamed, write down the existing default font (in cursive) so you can go back to it as needed! There will be a test in the morning :p

Now GET OFF MY LAWN!" :p

Or your browser could be under "File" or "Edit" --> "Preferences..." whichever it's on, a pop-up window should appear...

But it's fun to try!

testing script font


OK...well that didn't work

Warning: it may not work on some other websites that make extensive use of dynamic scripts.

If so, the page will simply display normally, though, and only basic HTML would appear in user-selected font.

Greasemonkey is a browser add-on for Firefox that allows you to tweak how websites look on
a site by site basis, but I don't know how to use it.

If they had a more user friendly version, they'd make a killing.

for my major font. It's big, and with my bad vision, quite easy to read.

Fellow Americans, I think this is something both cursive and anti-cursive Americans can agree on. BURN THE WITCH!!! :rofl:

:evilgrin:

...so many of them that the truly informative,
entertaining ones are lost in the noise.

Tesha

but the person who wrote the second note is a tool...

but it doesn't carry over to the DU as seems to be implied by the OP. Its only the case when reading on my computer not what others see so I'm perplexed by what the op is going on about.

It's a little bit of flinging a light into the darkness of the future, so to speak. I know a guy who sets everything on his computer in cursive, which inspired me to post this. Sadly, I don't have his font.

In fact, one of the reasons for posting this was to find out if Macs, at least even HAVE a decent cursive font.

They apparently DON'T! <-- See? Not cursive

People saying how kids shouldn't learn cursive irritate me as much as people who try to ban fonts. I referred to it in a joking way...

As for the "Ban Comic Sans" movement, most graphic designers are yuppies, so there you go. What folks do in the privacy of your home is noone's business -- hence the OP. As Hunter S. Thompson said, some people get incredible kicks out of red woolen jackets. But don't you think cursive is more elegant?
Too bad the standard cursive fonts are impossible to see :evilfrown:

Brush Script would be real easy to read if the default font were not so bold and tiny. Isn't this nice? Why don't they have a Brush Script Light, I wonder?

Of course, probably not everyone has the above font, and it comes in the wrong size and boldness.

To post in cursive use {font face=x}blah{/font} but with square brackets.

User selected script apparently overrides ALL fonts, not just the page default font.

So if you set your browser to display in cursive (sans Greasemonkey) it won't show this in Gill Sans Ultra Bold (or Brush Script MT.)

(I know someone who does this, to display everything on his computer in cursive BTW. And he's an uber up to the minute tech geek. But he uses a more legible cursive font that I can't find and don't know the name of)

"Select Default Browser Font" --> Pick a different font

Allow site to override SAID user selected font (i.e. leave the box checked, as is normal on most browsers) -->

Use the (font face="foo")(/font) tags (with straight brackets) to highlight the text you want, but use a nonexistent font, Like so! <--

Only people doing the same thing will see it in a different font. ;)

Thereby allowing the underground of DU to continue to propagate cursive...

But it's not showing as an option on my browser. :(

¿uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ ǝdʎʇ noʎ uɐɔ

ƃuıllǝʇ ʇou ɯı

then I can write in Elvish per the above.

Tengwar Annatar is a tengwar font, or rather a type family with four styles: regular, italic, bold and bold italic. The name Annatar, “Lord of Gifts”, was the deceiving name Sauron used when he taught the elven smiths the lore of ring making and subsequently made the One Ring, to rule them all… As Sauron was the maker of the ring we may deduce that he also was the engraver of the ring inscription from which the italic style of Tengwar Annatar is inspired. The upright style is a variant of the formal book-hand style with some elements in common with the italic style... The bold styles, finally, are simply written with a broader nib. This is an example of the four font styles:



Tengwar Annatar makes use of the encoding devised by Daniel S. Smith, and should therefore be more or less compatible with other fonts using this encoding. Some small divergences exists though, mainly concerning less common characters; see the documentations for more details.

Tengwar Annatar is available as eight TrueType fonts, which are all distributed in a compressed zip-file together with the documentation in PDF format. (Adobe Reader is needed to read PDF-files.)

http://home.student.uu.se/j/jowi4905/fonts/annatar.html

Interestingly, Tengwar appears to be an option on Adobe Reader, I think...

lɯʇɥ˙dılɟ/ʇǝu˙ʌɹǝɥs˙ʍʍʍ

.oot gnitirw esrever od nac uoy ,hA

(but only if you use foo font!) :P

ᗄʁө ʎo∩ ƨ∩ʁө¿ ⊥µ!ƨ looʞƨ w!ʁʁoʁөq ʇo wө···

Kind of....

Can't fool DUers for long.

Very powerful image and music.

Too bad it didn't get more hits when it came out. Muse makes a great soundtrack for protest movements!

I figured a change of pace was needed from my BFEE Eye of Sauron pic, since they have now built a newer Dark Tower of Burj Khalifa in Bushi Arabia. Ever the Shadow will take a different form and rise anew!

Protesting voter fraud in Ahmedinejad's re-election.

Sound familiar don't it?

Interestingly, Ahmedinejad's proposed successor for the next election is running AGAINST the hard-line clerics.

Presumably they see the writing on the wall when it comes to the hard liners vs. the Arab Spring (of course, Persians are Eurasian people, not Arabs...)

"Yes, subtitling is as much an art as anything else. I used to paint, you know."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDiDATbIG-o

And this, from the comments:

Ironically, the Nazis did really have disputes on matters of fonts; first favouring fraktur scripts over antiqua scripts, but then later banning fraktur and blaming it on the Jews. (Hardly the nastiest case of anti-Semitism they engaged in, but surely one of the strangest).

Setting up a secret society :o)8

Is there any font for ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀?

Is that like cuneiform?

Thanks :)

Edwardian script (font face="Edwardian Script ITC" size="5") is the only old-style calligraphy font I can find on my computer.

Not even the Declaration of Independence, for Heaven's Sake! But close enough...

In fact, I only see three calligraphy fonts standard on this Mac, and none of them except for Brush Script are designed for readability. And Brush Script is too bold to use for anything but headlines.

I do have these fonts on my computer, do you?

(using brackets instead of parentheses)

(font face="Futura" size="4")bla(/font)

Futura is a favorite old-style font of mine. It's rarely used except for Weimar-era German Expressionist Art and Neon Signs

Because of its consistent stroke width.

you'll see it used to advertise posters from the 20's and 30's like this and this:



(font face="Old English Text MT" size="5")bla(/font)

Can you read this? It's the only Newspaper style font

(font face="Lucida Blackletter" size="5")bla(/font)

How about this? It's a medieval-style font

(font face="Modern No. 20" size="5")bla(/font)

Or perhaps this? Very Victorian.

Where are the newspaper letterhead fonts?