Some of you have asked how I was able to get the peace sign (A) in my sig. I shall reveal the secret here, and, hereafter, I shall be able to direct other seekers to this thread for enlightenment.
A week or so ago, someone mentioned in a thread (probably one of the raisinbread threads) that you could change the font face on your posts. If the reader’s machine has that font installed, then they will see the text in that font. If you type [FONT=Times New Roman]this text will appear in Times New Roman[/FONT]. As I read this, I remembered the “Wingdings” font that makes little pictures when you type each letter (My friends and I used to use this font to create secret codes when we were in high school). The peace sign is a Wingdings capital A. Try it, it’s fun!
You may need to increase the size of the type to make your symbol legible. I used “size=6” to do that.
Yeah, if you don’t have Wingdings installed, you won’t see it. Some people get rid of those superfluous fonts in order to save disk space.
Hmmm…I wonder why it won’t work in Opera. It does, however, work in Netscape. I have found, though, that other “Wingdings-type” fonts, such as Webdings and Wingdings 2 and 3, do not work in Netscape. So, there is certainly a browser issue. The smattering of alphabetical fonts I tried did work with Netscape.
This trick works well in IE, though. For instance, if you happen to be using IE and have the “Animals 1” font, you’ll see a little triceratops ?..otherwise, you just see a big question mark.
It sure would, peepthis. You’d have to keep it in the Pit, though.
You know, I think there is (or was) a very Wingdings-like font for Macintosh called Zapf Dingbats. I remember using it in high school. I think that the peace sign was on either the comma or the period there. We used to use it as a “secret” code.
(Yep, that’s what we did in the computer lab in the days before the internet, children…)
Thats exactly what it will be seen as by a British Doper - we’ll see it as a Churchillian “V for Victory” which obviously has very different connotations to “peace”.
