- From: Clive Bruton <clive@typonaut.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 23 Feb 98 02:02:41 +0000
- To: <www-style@w3.org>
Chris Lilley wrote at 23/02/98 12:31 am
>I would prefer you called it line height. Line feed is often used for
>one of the two popular characters that signal end of line (CR, LF) and
>leading has the disadvantage that some people use it to mean line height
>and some use it to mean (line-height - font size) which is actually more
>accurate. To be super accurate it could be called brassing since my
>understanding is that these strips were made of brass not lead. But back
>to CSS...
Generally speaking "type" people refer to baseline to baseline
measurements as "leading", but you're quite right that this may be
construed by others as inaccurate.
>
>> I seem to have two (at least) solutions for defining leading:
>>
>> { line-height: 1.5em }
>
>yup
>> or
>>
>> { font: 1em/1.5em }
>
>That is an incomplete example since the font family is always required.
Sorry, I was trying to be brief, obviously overly so. The relevant values
are in the full style sheet in question.
>Try again with a valid font: aand see what happens. Try different units
>(pixels, points, mm, etc).
Using different units would mess up what I'm trying to achieve, some form
of scaleability. But I'll see what happens.
>
>Can you provide a specific test case which we can try out?
I'll post an example in the next 24hrs or so.
-- Clive
Received on Sunday, 22 February 1998 21:06:13 UTC