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.
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