Re: [css3-values] cap-height unit?

2008/12/1 Stanimir Stamenkov <s7an10@netscape.net>:
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> Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:53:44 -0500, /Ambrose Li/:
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>> 2008/12/1 Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>:
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>>> My first reaction aligns with Stanimir's suggestion i.e. wouldn't a
>>> line-height multiple be more useful for this use-case ?
>>
>> A lot of times an image is used as a character (e.g., which has no
>> Unicode, or which is unusual and so absent in most common fonts). A
>> cap-height unit would be more useful in this case.
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> Doesn't such an image never need to take the space from the text-bottom to
> the baseline?  In my opinion it is more likely for such an image to have the
> height from the text-bottom to the text-top which should be the same as 1em,
> or I'm missing something?

It may or may not. If an image is to stand for a glyph with no
Unicode, it could be a lowercase letter, in which case it would take
the space between the baseline and the descender line.

(And yes, I did run into this problem myself, though it was before
CSS/Unicode times.)
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