- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <rex@css.nu>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 06:55:48 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-style@w3.org
- Cc: erik@netscape.com (Erik van der Poel)
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999 11:15:04 -0800, you wrote:
>CSS2, section 10.8.1:
> When the 'line-height' value is less than the font size, the final
> inline box height will be less than the font size and the rendered
> glyphs will "bleed" outside the box.
>
>Section 15.2.1:
> Font size
> The font size refers to the size of the font from baseline to
> baseline, when set solid (in CSS terms, this is when the
> 'font-size' and 'line-height' properties have the same value).
>
>Section 10.8.1 seems to imply that the font size is from the top of the
>glyph with the tallest bounding box height to the bottom of the glyph
>with the lowest bounding box edge. Does this mean that the font size
>includes the accents (e.g. acute accent found in some European
>languages)?
On a few occasions the text of the CSS1 spec gives better explanation of
things. From the CSS1 section on "Terminology"
font size
The size for which a font is designed. Typically, the size
of a font is approximately equal to the distance from the bottom
of the lowest letter with a descender to the top of the tallest
letter with an ascender and (optionally) with a diacritical mark.
Some illustrations here might be of interest...
http://css.nu/articles/typograph1-en.html
...to clarify the meaning of this?
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Jan Roland Eriksson <rex@css.nu> .. <URL:http://css.nu/>
Received on Sunday, 21 March 1999 15:45:57 UTC