- From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 12:37:50 -0800
- To: Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se>
- CC: www-font@w3.org
> > BODY { font-family: Verdana; font-size-adjust: first-avail; }
>
> I'm not sure of the implications of that.
In the above example, if Verdana's ex/em ratio is 0.58, then
"first-avail" is the same as "0.58", except that the style sheet author
doesn't need to figure out Verdana's ratio. The implementation figures
out the ratio by looking at the Verdana font. This makes life easier for
the style sheet author.
> 'font-size ex-height <the size asked for>' is
> straight-forward and easy to teach and understand.
As Clive pointed out, the line-height should not be based on the
ex-height. So now you would need to carefully explain the line-height
issues, so that people don't think that line-height is a factor of
ex-height.
Either way, it's complex. Both font-size-adjust and ex-height are
complicated.
Erik
Received on Thursday, 3 February 2000 15:41:22 UTC