On 22 Aug 2007, at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm working for a company in which the boss (who's originally from the > print industry) insists on having equal line lengths in the > browsers on > different operating systems. > > So in an example text, "hello, i'm example text!", if the text is > split to > the following line at "example" on Firefox Windows, it must be > split at > "example" in Firefox Mac/Safari as well.
I had to do something similar for a site owned by a 'print person' who insisted that lines be the recommended-for-reading-in-books length of somewhere around 7 words per line. It was a simple matter to specify the width of the containing element (the site's old enough that this used to be a table cell, but it's now a DIV). I use EMs as the unit of measure, which with the usual caveats, will give -- in most browsers most of the time, which is as good as it gets -- a similar line length. The exact line length may not be precise to the pixel across browsers and OSes, but words being chunky, it works well enough. Rob There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen, musician (1934-) ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
