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Re: [S] S-PLUS User Conference Program on web

To: bates@stat.wisc.edu (Douglas Bates)
Subject: Re: [S] S-PLUS User Conference Program on web
From: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:20:33 +1200 (NZST)
Cc: s-news@wubios.wustl.edu (Snews)
In-reply-to: <6r6712rgns.fsf@franz.stat.wisc.edu> from "Douglas Bates" at Sep 22, 99 12:37:43 pm
Reply-to: "Patrick Connolly" <P.Connolly@hort.cri.nz>
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According to Douglas Bates:
|> 
|> 
|> Lori Seabright <loris@statsci.com> writes:
|> 
|> > The 1999 S-PLUS International User Conference Program is available on our
|> > website. Check out our exciting line-up of speakers and workshops at: 
|> > 
|> > www.mathsoft.com/splus/99userconf/99userconf.htm
|> 
|> Is it just me or do others find the fonts on that page and the
|> workshops page to be unusually ugly and difficult to read?  I am
|> trying to read those pages in netscape version 4 under Linux and the
|> fonts are nearly illegible.  Am I running into a "best viewed with
|> Microsoft Internet Explorer" situation here?  (I suppose I could check

In this case, Microsoft is not the issue.  The fonts look terrible
using Netscape 4.6 for Solaris also.  There is something very odd with
the leading.  Seems to me to be an issue with the X Window System.
Netscape never did have good font size manipulation on X.


--Patrick
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