Re: [css4-fonts] font-size: auto

I could see that as a being a huge boon to responsive design in the future,
where plain text can adjust based on the width of the parent container.

I wonder if this could also be assisted with a max- and min- property?
max-font-size and min-font-size? I know some fonts become unreadable at
certain sizes, and at that point it would be more appropriate to wrap it
than continue to shrink it.

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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Christoph Päper <
christoph.paeper@crissov.de> wrote:

> Sometimes you have a one-line box (or maybe 2 lines of text) with a fixed
> width and the text within should fill all of this. This could be done with
> either manually adjusting letter-spacing and word-spacing or with manually
> increasing the font-size until just before the last word breaks to the next
> line. This, however, does not work reliably since you can never know which
> font will be used in the end. For letter and word spacing the automated
> variant is known as justified text, i.e. “text-align: justify”, but for
> font sizing there is none.
>
> Therefore I would like to suggest for level 4 of the Font module to make
> the ‘font-size’ property accept at least one new keyword, e.g. ‘auto’,
> ‘line-fill’, ‘width’ or ‘fill-x’, that facilitates the described behavior.
>
> I’m not sure there are also valid usecases for
> a) shrinking the size until the complete text fits within one line,
> b) increasing the size until the parent box’s height is used to the
> maximum extent by lines of text,
> so I’m leaving that to level 5 or others to propose. Beware, though, that
> if these are future things to address ‘auto’ may not be the best choice for
> the suggested line fill keyword.
>

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