- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 16:19:18 -0800
- To: Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org, "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
On Monday 2012-03-05 09:13 +0900, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2012, at 6:05 AM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > > font-size-adjust lets you size fonts by specifying their ex size > > rather than their em size. > > Uh, no, that is not what font-size-adjust does. > > font-size-adjust allows the author to specify the aspect-ratio of > the preferred font, and this makes it possible to resize the > fallback font to match the size of the preferred font. > http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#font-size-adjust-prop They're the same thing; you can think of it either way: as a backwards-compatible way to specify font sizes in terms of x-height, or as a way to make x-height match across fallback or across changes in font. But it's not specific to fallback: it applies to the first-choice font too. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂
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