Re: [css3-values] cap-height unit?

2008/12/1 Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>:
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>> Would it be useful to add a unit representing the height of capitals
>> in the current font?  [snip] It seems like it could be useful when sizing
>> images to fit within a line of text, and it further seems like the
>> implementation could share a lot of code with the implementation of the 'ex' unit.
>
> My first reaction aligns with Stanimir's suggestion i.e. wouldn't a line-height multiple be more useful for this use-case ?

A lot of times an image is used as a character (e.g., which has no
Unicode, or which is unusual and so absent in most common fonts). A
cap-height unit would be more useful in this case.


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