Barbara,
Tahoma is a font just as Times New Roman and Arial are fonts.
A font is a style of a typeface. Times New Roman has a lot of tiny bars on
letters. Some fonts are very simple and some are very complex. Tahoma is one
that is simpler than Times New Roman. A font is actually artwork that has a
style for all letters, numbers and punctuation represented by it.
Some other font names are Calibri, Courier, Courier New, Garamond, Kalinga,
Plantagenet Cherokee, Verdana, Vivaldi, Wingdings and even Yu Mincho Light.
I just did a check in my Microsoft Word 365 to see how many fonts it has and I
reached about 440. I’m sure you can import even more than these. There is one
called braille. Maybe it represents the dots on a printed page. If I had an
Optacon I’d try it out and tell you.
As we used to say at IRS: “Have I answered your question?”
Fonts are fun!
From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Barbara B (Redacted sender "scootergirlred" for DMARC)
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:03 AM
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tahoma versus Times New Roman
I am one of those "deranged perfectionists." What is Tahoma? I never heard of
it.
Barbara
On Sunday, March 14, 2021, 7:10:33 PM PDT, Lissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote:
Dear T. Gorman
Some of us use Tahoma as a courtesy to those sighted people who examine our
checked in books for approval but as Misha says, it isn’t required. With Tahoma
it’s easier to distinguish between lower case l, the capital I and the numeral
1. I have word set for legal length pages with narrow margins to avoid those
soft page breaks which confuse my page count. I go to those awful ribbons to
the page size and enter then arrow down to legal and enter to get more room.
Welcome to the ranks of the deranged perfectionists!
Always with love,
Lissi
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From: Misha <mailto:mishatronics@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 6, 2021 7:39 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Tahoma versus Times New Roman
I am pretty sure you can use any font in the copy of the book you upload to
bookshare. The system bookshare uses to convert from the rtf files we upload to
the DAISY files downloaded by members converts everything to the same font
(which I have heard is times new roman, but I am not a member so I cannot
verify that). To make all the text fit on one page it is fine to change the
margins and/or page size bucause those also are set to some standard values by
the bookshare conversion system.
Good luck
Misha
On Mar 6, 2021, 16:18 -0700, t.gorman <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >, wrote:
Hi everyone,
A few months ago I learned from this list that Tahoma is preferred by large
print readers to Times New Roman. Since then I’ve tried to make books be on
Tahoma. But I’m finding that some book pages fill beyond the one-page-per-page
size when I shift a book from TNR to Tahoma. Has anyone experienced this and is
there a fix? For example, could I legitimately change the margins to zero if
this would allow the pages which did fit in TNR to fit in Tahoma?
To say it another way, a page of material, when shifted from TNR to Tahoma
causes the text to spill partly onto another page.
