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When writing <font face="arial"> it is safer to write
<font face="arial,helvetica,verdana"> instead.
No, it's actually not safer. It's potentially worse. Unix systems
typically don't have arial, but do have helvetica. (Verdana is
Microsoft-specific and not available for Unix for free, last time I
checked.) Though both arial and helvetica are sans serif fonts, helvetica
is considerably narrower. Hence something that looks perfectly readable in
arial may be squashed very badly together in helvetica and rendered
unreadable. This is especially the case if a smaller-than-default font
size is also used.