On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:05 AM, Terrence Wood wrote:
If, in laymans terms, font-size-adjust allows you to specify the
font-size based on the x-height of a preferred font-family, how is a
rendering engine supposed to deal with this if said font is missing?
Font-size-adjust works based on the first font specified in the list
for font-family, doesn't matter if the font exists on the system or not.
example.
p {font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif; font-size-adjust:
0.54;}
On Win OS, Lucida Grande is not present (OS X only font), the size of
the text will nevertheless be adjusted (slightly enlarged) as Arial
has an aspect ratio of 0.52. This is interesting in the case of a
stylesheet that specifies 'Verdana, Arial, sans-serif', and where the
page author bases all his work on the size of Verdana (we all know
that this is big font, with rather large aspect ratio). Verdana at
12px maybe or not be readable to the user, Arial at 12px looks and
feels much smaller, and will probably be harder to read for the user.
And how does it resolve line-height issues for fonts that have a low
aspect ratio?
Could you clarify ?
Line-height depends on the used value for font-family, basically.
Personally, I would like to see some decent column support before
trying to exert this degree of control on font-sizing.
Philippe
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Philippe Wittenbergh
http://emps.l-c-n.com
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