(The discussion started under the heading "font-family font sizes", but I now changed the Subject to more specific.)
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Bruno Fassino wrote: > Putting together the above, if we trust Gecko, the aspect ratio of a > font can be obtained simply observing the size of an element > dimensioned using 'ex' units. The results are consistent with those I got with my simplistic method that compares the letter x in large font size with a stickyard. See http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/x-height.html It seems that different ways lead to the same results, implying that the figures mentioned in CSS specifications are wrong - most notably when they say that Verdana has an aspect ratio of 0.58, but it actually has 0.545. This, as well as methods of finding out the x-height value for specific fonts, is of some importance to authors who wish to use font-size-adjust (which helps on Firefox 2 and does no harm when it doesn't). -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
