Re: line-height limitations

On Mar 16, 2011, at 4:59 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 16, 2011, at 1:56 PM, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2011/3/16 Brad Kemper <brad.kemper@gmail.com>:
>>>> How about something that said not to take the glyph size and font leading
>>>> into account at all for line box height calculation, unless it us the only
>>>> thing on the line and needs to be an input into line-height (for em line
>>>> height, for example). Then it could also maybe solve the problem of
>>>> vertical-align:sup creating a big gap between two lines.
>>> 
>>> Nah, you want it to take the height of the large letter into account,
>>> just not the nonexistent descender.
>> 
>> You presume to know what I want?
>> 
>> First lines are not the only lines to get messed up in spite of consistent line-heights on the whole block.
> 
> I presume to know what *Hyatt* wants, and your solution was
> insufficient for that for the reason I mentioned.
> 
> (Also, that was a general "you", not a specific "you as in Brad".  Sorry.)


It was my email that you replied to and said "no" to. It was insufficient for the reason I mentioned.