- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 19:21:47 -0700
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Tuesday 2003-05-13 04:01 +0200, Christoph Päper wrote: > Verdana: 0.58 -- 1117 / 2048 ~= 0.545 > Times New Roman: 0.46 -- 916 / 2048 ~= 0.447 > Are the values wrong, inaccurate, derived from different versions, or is the > calculation method flawed? I'm not sure. I did similar computations back in February 1999, and got similar numbers for the two fonts above based on measuring the lowercase x (see screenshot [1]). I emailed Todd Fahrner, who I think was the original author of the table in question, and he replied, with a link to a screenshot that no longer exists, which contained what I suspect was an answer to my question that satisfied me at the time (probably with the font's metrics drawn in showing where the "official" x-height was). So it now surprises me a bit that the numbers disagree with the metrics provided in the font, especially since you seem to have tried many reasonable combinations of dividend and divisor. -David [1] http://dbaron.org/css/fonts/fontsize.gif -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
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