On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramr...@centrum.cz> wrote: > IIRC traditionally X is used for height and m for width. > > Either way it is a unit that is not the same when measured vertically > and horizontally, and it is not possible to draw a square using this > unit. > > Also when you want to make a box that accomodates n lines of text you > need a unit for line-height. That is, you need to take into account > the maximum rise of characters like ÅÕṌṎ, and maximum fall of > characters like ᶘɀ and also include some space between the lines so > that they do not merge visually. > > I guess it would be quite common to either display a box that can > accommodate a piece of text or a box that fits the most lines of text > possible in a given space so it would be useful to have units for > that.
Hi, Height includes ascent, descent and leading, the value is the same for all characters, we only need to choose the reference character for width calculation. -- Bean gitgrub home: http://github.com/grub/grub/ my fork page: http://github.com/bean123/grub/ _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
