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A design goal of Quadwriter is to treat document layout as the result of a program. Along those lines, fonts are handled differently than usual. When you use a word processor, you choose from whatever fonts might be installed on your system.
Quadwriter, by contrast, relies only on fonts that are @emph{in the same directory} as your other project source files. This is a feature: it means that everything necessary to render the document travels together in the same directory. You can re-render it anywhere with identical results. You never have the problem —still with us after 35 years of desktop word processing —that ``oh, you need to install such-and-such font in your system before it will work.'' Bah!
Quadwriter, by contrast, prefers to rely on fonts that are @emph{in the same directory} as your other project source files. This is a feature: it means that everything necessary to render the document can travel together in the same directory. You can re-render it anywhere with identical results. You never have the problem —still with us after 35 years of desktop word processing —that ``oh, you need to install such-and-such font in your system before it will work.'' Bah!
Quadwriter supports the usual TrueType (@racket[.ttf]) and OpenType (@racket[.otf]) font files. It also supports WOFF files (@racket[.woff]). To add fonts to your Quadwriter experience:
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Fallback only. Used for other glyphs not present in the currently selected font.
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@subsubsection{System fonts}
Yes, if you're feeling lazy, you can use the name of a system font family in any field that takes a family name, and Quad will comply. But if you do this, bear in mind that your document will no longer necessarily be portable between systems, because it depends on a certain font already being available on that system. I include this option because I can imagine plenty of uses for Quad where ease outweighs portability. In which case, have at it.
@subsection{Colors}
A @deftech{hex color} is a case-insensitive string of six hex digits prefixed with @litchar{#}, such as @racket["#fe456a"] or @racket["#cc6633"]. The pairs of digits represent the red, green, and blue components of the color respectively, each pair taking on hex values between 0 (@racket["00"]) and 255 (@racket["ff"]), inclusive. As optional shorthand, a three-digit hex color such as @racket["#c63"] is equivalent to @racket["#cc6633"].
