30.5 Mapping fonts
Try to keep your font usage in HTML very simple, using
only fonts that you are certain your readers have on their systems. A
browser’s substitution for an unavailable font can be quite ugly.
In this section:
§30.5.1
Specifying a default font and size
§30.5.2
Including or excluding font tags
§30.5.3
Excluding the face attribute from font tags
§30.5.4
Accommodating browser font-rendering differences
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Parent Topic: 30. Mapping text formats
to HTML/XML
Sibling Topics:
30.1 Choosing
how to map formats
30.2 Mapping
paragraph formats
30.3 Mapping character
formats
30.4 Mapping
special characters
30.6 Managing
typographic elements for HTML or XML
30.7 Specifying
text colors
30.8 Configuring
preformatted text for HTML/XML
30.9 Converting
footnotes to HTML or XML
30.10 Converting
list formats to HTML (deprecated)