On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Kristina Floyd wrote: > For example in firebug, I can trace the font-size back to the original value > that it was set at in the body tag. What I'd like is to be able to select > some text and to be given the equivalent value in pixels or pts, as I'm > unsure that the value thats given in the layout part of firebug gives the > equivalent pixel value if it was in Photosho.
You seem to mean that you would like to see the _computed_ font-size values. Firebug apparently has provisions for such inspection in the DOM view, but it works in a confusing way, if at all. Yet, I wonder whether this is the heart of the matter. > Firebug will measure from the top of the T to the bottom of the g, does that > value in pixels equate to 11px in photoshop? The font size is the total height of a font, and this can be approximated by measuring the distance from the lowest descender to the highest ascender, though font design generally allows for some small spacing above and below (and might, on the other hand, exceed the font height to some extent). If Photoshop tells you something essentially different, it does not tell you the font size, either in CSS terms or in traditional typography terms. > From the Owen Briggs method > I set the body to be 76% and then increase or decrease the font-size in ems > accordingly, thereafter. I here what you are saying, but I don't see how that's related to measuring font sizes. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
