- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 13:38:35 -0700
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 4:02a -0700 08/24/97, E. Stephen Mack wrote:
>
> Also, the effect of SPAN used with style sheets for certain parts
> of a PRE element will cause misalignment of the preformatted
> text:
[snip]
> SPAN { font-size: larger; color: red;}
[snip]
> <PRE>
> What is the effect of it?
> What is the <SPAN>effect</SPAN> of it?
> These 3 lines won't align
> </PRE>
[snip]
> This is a valid HTML 4.0 document, but the second line in the
> PRE element is wider than the other two. I could do the same
> thing with any element, including <STRONG> or other valid
> PRE content. So you're not going to be able to combat the
> use of style sheets to change the size of portions of
> preformatted text.
Is there support in CSS for Multiple Master fonts? That is, is there
a way to specify font *metrics*? That would then allow for making a
taller/bolder/samewidth which would work for the above example...
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Received on Sunday, 24 August 1997 16:39:26 UTC