On 14.4.2014 15:02, mus@designtoday.co.uk wrote: > The general rule in typography is the CPL should be between 55-75 > depending on the typeface family and its subsequent fonts. As each font > has a different character width this can make a huge difference. So the > idea would be something along the lines like > > P { > cpl: 75; > } I don't think that counting characters make sense for proportional fonts. 60 "i" letters produce much shorter line then 60 "m" letters. Is there any use-case which can't be solved by something like body { max-width: 50em; } As "em" is related to font-size, it should give you good approximation for this. Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: jirka@kosek.cz http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 rep. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bringing you XML Prague conference http://xmlprague.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Thursday, 24 April 2014 17:48:49 UTC
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