On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Bruno Fassino wrote
>In the Firefox source I see this
>DWORD len = GetGlyphOutlineW(dc, PRUnichar('x'), GGO_METRICS, &gm,
>0, nsnull, &kIdentityMatrix);
> ...
>mMetrics->xHeight = gm.gmptGlyphOrigin.y;
>
>I know nothing about this (I'm not even sure to have identif
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Richard Mason wrote:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534014(VS.85).aspx shows the
> parameters that can be read, by a call to the appropriate Operating
> System function, for an installed font. Note "otmsXHeight" which is the
> x-height and the comment
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009, Bruno Fassino wrote
Hello Bruno,
>Your article is interesting, but I do not fully agree on your
>conclusion that "browsers do not know the x-height".
Badly phrased perhaps. I meant that it is not possible programmatically
to directly read the x-height font metric. This page
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Richard Mason wrote:
>
> Reference [1] says "The example given clearly shows that the browser
> "knows" the x-height of "Times New Roman" to do the calculation.".
> That's wrong. Browsers do not know the x-height of a font because the
> Operating System doesn't know
On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:07:06 +0100, Dejan Kozina wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> For all those in search of sensible values for font-family:
> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/
>
> The samples are way to small, but the result seems nice to me.
>
I prefer the samples in this a
On Jan 10, 2009, at 1:02 AM, Dejan Kozina wrote:
> The size differences might be a good chance to try out the
> font-size-adjust property[1]. Last time I've heard about it was on
> this
> list in 2007 ([2] and [3]), but except for Firefox[4] I'm unsure
> about
> the browser support today...
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Dejan Kozina wrote
>The size differences might be a good chance to try out the
>font-size-adjust property[1]. Last time I've heard about it was on this
>list in 2007 ([2] and [3]), but except for Firefox[4] I'm unsure about
>the browser support today...
Reference [1] says
What caught my eye in the proposed font stacks is that the author paid
attention to Linux - most similar stacks one finds googling around just
care to compare Windows vs. Mac default fonts.
The size differences might be a good chance to try out the
font-size-adjust property[1]. Last time I've hear
2009/1/9 Cristian Palmas :
>> Dejan Kozina wrote:
>> For all those in search of sensible values for font-family:
>> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/
>>
>> djn
>
> Thanks for the link, Dejan.
> It's a really interesting point of view to know about typography.
> In my op
> Dejan Kozina wrote:
> For all those in search of sensible values for font-family:
> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/
>
> djn
Thanks for the link, Dejan.
It's a really interesting point of view to know about typography.
In my opinion, though, the author would have co
Dejan Kozina wrote:
> For all those in search of sensible values for font-family:
> http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/
>
> djn
>
>
>
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Hello list!
For all those in search of sensible values for font-family:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/eight-definitive-font-stacks/
The samples are way to small, but the result seems nice to me.
djn
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