. Is there some way to set the default font for all TWiki content to (say) Arial/Helvetica, i.e. affecting all existing and new pages automatically? This would make our intranet TWiki site fit in with our existing intranet site a lot better.

• TWiki version: 1 May 2000
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Linux

-- RichardDonkin - 25 Jan 2001

Answer

Edit the template files in twiki/templates/ and define your font. Probably the easiest with style sheets. Please consult HTML docs.

-- PeterThoeny - 26 Jan 2001

Followup

I've attached the CSS file that I now use on most of our Twiki webs - it uses Arial/Helvetica type fonts, and changes the link styles a bit, but is fairly vanilla. It may help other CSS newbies!

To implement the changes, at least on a Unix/Linux box, try something like the following to do a global edit (copies original files to .bak files). You are strongly advised to copy one of the templates and test that it does what you want before running this!

	 perl -pi.bak -e 's|</HEAD>| <LINK rel="Stylesheet" href="%PUBURLPATH%general.css" type="text/css">  </HEAD>|' *.tmpl

Another question

Is there an easier way of escaping the 'href=' and the '%' than I did above? The HTML % entity doesn't seem to work on IE5 or Opera.

-- RichardDonkin - 11 May 2001

To escape a TWiki variable,

-- PeterThoeny - 18 May 2001