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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
