- From: Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 23:40:51 -0400
- To: MURAKAMI Shinyu <murakami@antenna.co.jp>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 2014-06-01 at 16:29 +0900, MURAKAMI Shinyu wrote:
> I would like to propose new relative length units:
>
> 'lh' line-height of the element
I support this strongly.
> 'rlh' line-height of the root element
No opinion here.
[...]
> To prevent circular dependency, the following limitations are needed:
>
> - 'lh' cannot be used on 'line-height' and 'font-size' property value
Or it has the same meaning as a percentage, resolved against the
inherited value.
body { line-height: 17px; }
div.outer { line-height: 3lh; width: 10lh; }
would give the div.outer 3 * 17 px line height, i.e. 51px,
and a width of 510px.
Although the CSS line box isn't actually what typographers have
traditionally used (since baseline and font-height or cap-height etc.
are more usual alignment points than an invisible box surrounding the
line) line-height would in practice work out to baseline spacing, which
is a sorely missed unit, especially for print formatting where you want
to make a lot of heights a multiple of the line height to minimize
distracting show-through and save money by using thinner paper. This is
related to a baseline grid, but not the same.
Liam
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