Jana is right -- picking a different font is the best solution to this. Try taking a look at:
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Thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: talk-requ...@lists.nyphp.org To: talk@lists.nyphp.org Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 1:45:55 PM Subject: talk Digest, Vol 55, Issue 5 Send talk mailing list submissions to talk@lists.nyphp.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to talk-requ...@lists.nyphp.org You can reach the person managing the list at talk-ow...@lists.nyphp.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of talk digest..." Today's Topics: 1. font properties (I H) 2. Re: font properties (Anthony Wlodarski) 3. Re: font properties (Jana Harper) 4. Re: font properties (I H) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:13:18 -0700 (PDT) From: I H <sely...@yahoo.com> To: talk@lists.nyphp.org Subject: [nyphp-talk] font properties Message-ID: <918354.49316...@web30802.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello All: I am designing a site and need assistance on one issue. It has to deal with fonts. to change the width of a font, you would use the font-width statement to change the font from left-to-right. is there a way of changing it from top-to-bottom. ie to stretch the font ? thanks in advance Ian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20110527/9464eb6d/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:29:22 -0400 From: Anthony Wlodarski <anth...@tinkertownlabs.com> To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] font properties Message-ID: <4ddfdf72.5030...@tinkertownlabs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" The only feasible way to do this that I am aware of is with CSS3 and the font-stretch declaration. But it will still only scale it horizontally, not vertically. -Anthony On 05/27/2011 01:13 PM, I H wrote: > > Hello All: > > I am designing a site and need assistance on one issue. It has to > deal with fonts. to change the width of a font, you would use the > font-width statement to change the font from left-to-right. is there > a way of changing it from top-to-bottom. ie to stretch the font ? > > > thanks in advance > > > */Ian/* > > > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation -- Anthony Wlodarski Lead Software Engineer Get2Know.me (http://www.get2know.me) Office: 646-285-0500 x217 Fax: 646-285-0400 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20110527/4e7c0b48/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:39:19 -0700 From: Jana Harper <j...@meetduo.com> To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] font properties Message-ID: <3ce7f05b-e244-4cb1-9a48-ca91321e1...@meetduo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi Ian, You can use line-height to adjust the height of the space the font fits in, but as far as I know there isn't a way to scale the font vertically. Even if there was a way to do that I wouldn't recommend it because it would distort the original intended look of the typeface. If you need a taller font and increasing the size makes it too wide, pick a different typeface. There are quite a few to choose from with the advent of web fonts -- check out these sites: http://typekit.com/ http://webfonts.fonts.com/ http://www.fonts.com/ http://www.google.com/webfonts Also check out this API for accessing typefaces from various providers through a common interface: http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/ Jana Harper Duo www.meetduo.com www.wellcrafted.is @well_crafted @meetduo 206.601.0127 On May 27, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: > The only feasible way to do this that I am aware of is with CSS3 and the > font-stretch declaration. But it will still only scale it horizontally, not > vertically. > > -Anthony > > On 05/27/2011 01:13 PM, I H wrote: >> >> Hello All: >> >> I am designing a site and need assistance on one issue. It has to deal >> with fonts. to change the width of a font, you would use the font-width >> statement to change the font from left-to-right. is there a way of changing >> it from top-to-bottom. ie to stretch the font ? >> >> >> thanks in advance >> >> >> >> Ian >> >> _______________________________________________ >> New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >> http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation > > -- > Anthony Wlodarski > Lead Software Engineer > Get2Know.me (http://www.get2know.me) > Office: 646-285-0500 x217 > Fax: 646-285-0400 > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.nyphp.org/pipermail/talk/attachments/20110527/b6162cd1/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 10:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: I H <sely...@yahoo.com> To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] font properties Message-ID: <645440.26369...@web30808.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" thanks again, i will try those and check the links you sent Ian ________________________________ From: Jana Harper <j...@meetduo.com> To: NYPHP Talk <talk@lists.nyphp.org> Sent: Fri, May 27, 2011 1:39:19 PM Subject: Re: [nyphp-talk] font properties Hi Ian, You can use line-height to adjust the height of the space the font fits in, but as far as I know there isn't a way to scale the font vertically. Even if there was a way to do that I wouldn't recommend it because it would distort the original intended look of the typeface. If you need a taller font and increasing the size makes it too wide, pick a different typeface. There are quite a few to choose from with the advent of web fonts -- check out these sites: http://typekit.com/ http://webfonts.fonts.com/ http://www.fonts.com/ http://www.google.com/webfonts Also check out this API for accessing typefaces from various providers through a common interface: http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/ Jana Harper Duo www.meetduo.com www.wellcrafted.is @well_crafted @meetduo 206.601.0127 On May 27, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Anthony Wlodarski wrote: The only feasible way to do this that I am aware of is with CSS3 and the font-stretch declaration. But it will still only scale it horizontally, not vertically. > >-Anthony > >On 05/27/2011 01:13 PM, I H wrote: >Hello All: >>I am designing a site and need assistance on one issue. It has to >>deal with fonts. to change the width of a font, you would use the >>font-width statement to change the font from left-to-right. is >>there >>a way of changing it from top-to-bottom. ie to stretch the font ? >> >> >>thanks in advance >> >> >> >>Ian >> >> _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group >>Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >>http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation -- Anthony Wlodarski Lead Software Engineer Get2Know.me (http://www.get2know.me/) Office: 646-285-0500 x217 Fax: 646-285-0400 _______________________________________________ >New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List >http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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