On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Philippe Wittenbergh wrote: > font-size-adjust works on the first specified font-family in the > stylesheet. > > You know that the value for Verdana is 0.58 [1]. You specify that. > If you have 'Verdana', no problems arise, as you say. If 'Verdana' is > not available, the size of the font that is actually used will be > enlarged or reduced to match the aspect value of 'Verdana'.
I'm returning to this discussion we had a few weeks ago, since I learned a lot from it but did not quite get some specifics. It seems that font-size-adjust helps in some sizing issues on Firefox 2 (Windows) and does not hurt when it does not work, so it's reasonable to use it fairly often. Moreover, the new sans-serif fonts in Vista seem to have fairly small aspect ratios, so that there will be some problems when you write, say, font-family: Calibri, Arial, sans-serif; > The only problem I have atm is finding the aspect value for a given > font. The font contains that information, but I haven't found an > utility to tell me that value, nor any resource for it - especially > for fonts I don't have. This sounds like an odd situation. Are we all expected to find out such things by ourselves? I guess I can get to sufficiently accurate results by, say, using to copies of letter "x" side by side, one in Verdana in a very large font size, the other in the font being investigated. Then I can tune the font size of the latter "x" so that the x's are equally tall, and then I simply divide the font sizes and multiply the result by 0.58. But this is rather clumsy and boring. -- Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
