The HTML+ spec addresses these issues in the "correct" way for a high-level
markup language. It adds the LANG attribute to many tags and adds tags for
math markups. That way the browser implementor can handle these things as
appropriate for the browser platform. This may be as simple as allowing the
end user to specify fonts to use for various languages and for math, and puts
the font control where it belongs, with the end user.
>Anyway, you just use that font and slant it, embolden it, magnify and
>shrink it, and that's all there is to it. Simple eh?
It is if your browser can support these things. Browsers for simple text
terminals (e.g. VT100, 3278) can't.
>I think we do need font control somehow, and that is why TeX is so
>complex. And existing fonts so infuriating!!
I think we should avoid font control at all costs.
Michael Johnson
Relay Technology, Inc.