- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 20:18:33 +0100
- To: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- CC: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>, www-style@w3.org
Erik van der Poel wrote: > > David Perrell wrote: > > I posted an example at > > http://www.hpaa.com/css1/font-position.html > > I agree with you that the text "A pascally dementia" does indeed look > best when it is centered with respect to ascender and descender. I agree - that string (which has no accented letters), in that font (where the amount the descenders drop below the baseline is similar to the amount the ascenders rise above the x-height) looks best when centred wrt ascender/descender. If there were accented capital letters, the one centered on the bounding box would look best. If there were Vietnamese in there - where you can have up to three accents on top of one another - then the font would be outside the bounding box so the white accents would bbe lost against the white and cyan background. -- Chris
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