- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 12:53:55 -0800
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- CC: www-font@w3.org
Chris Lilley wrote: > > Nick Nussbaum wrote: > > > > Note that characters actually are aligned optically to the baseline. See > > http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/fdsspec/default.htm > > for a nice discussion of some of the complexities. > > If you had to choose one, it would be better to use Em Square rather than > > Bounding box. Bounding box means that two fonts of the same typeface with > > different character sets might align differently because one had Uppercase > > accents. > > Yes. Chris, please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought CSS2 says that the inline boxes within a line box are aligned according to the vertical-align property, which defaults to "baseline". I.e. the text across the line box would still be aligned to the baseline by default. My question was about how to center text within its inline box. That is quite different from the question of how to align inline boxes within their line box. What am I missing? Erik
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