Hi there,

I didn't really get your point, let me see if I got your question right...

Are you trying to add vertical margins between elements without disrupting
the baseline rhythm?
Or wondering the effect of pixel-based margins combined with em-based
settings in blueprint typography?



On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 7:03 PM, weby <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> List,
>
> Hello. As a blue print newbie. I am trying understand how to set
> margins to work with blueprint. In reading over the css file that
> comes with blueprint I noticed that the body is built on a 1.5 line
> height. I assume this is in ems and is large enough to allow for
> varying default font sizes of browsers. Am I right so far?
>
> Not to stray to far from my post but this reminded me that I also
> noticed no top margins for paragraphs. I assumed this is not necessary
> when one paragraph follows another.
>
> Back to the subject at hand, so when adding margins, or images, I also
> assumed I need to set them in multiples of  1.5. Is this also correct?
> If so, this could be rather larger depending on the design, especially
> for those spaces just below headers.
>
> Of course this is assuming that I have not changed the font size of
> the div or paragraph in question. Right now I am using blue print's
> typography unchanged.
>
> But, if the font size is changed and I want to add margins, would I
> need to calculate those margin insted of using a multiple of 1.5? Is
> this correct?
>
> I ask because I got this understanding from reading Richard Rutter's
> article "Compose to a Vertical Rhythm" at
> http://24ways.org/2006/compose-to-a-vertical-rhythm.
> It was a link in one of the articles under the Tutorials Heading at
> github.
>
>
> norma
>



-- 
Goulven Champenois

--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups 
"Blueprint CSS" group.
To post to this group, send email to [email protected]
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to 
[email protected]
For more options, visit this group at 
http://groups.google.com/group/blueprintcss?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

Reply via email to