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Re: width measurements? [message #176333 is a reply to message #176332]

Fri, 23 December 2011 03:14

The Natural Philosoph
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Michael Joel wrote:
> em is font height. ex is x height.
> Is there anything for width of fonts?
>
> Thanks
> Mike

No, not that I have found.

The way I have played this is to uses a class style, and then using at
least three platforms - usually a Mac, Linux and Windoze virtual
machine, selectively select fonts and order them to get as near as
possible the right and similar appearances..knowing that the user can in
any case bugger around with zoom factors and override style defined fonts..
...but at least get to the point where your web page looks MORE OR LESS
similar on all platforms with the default fonts that MOST people will
have on those platforms, and the smart arses who override the 'operating
system defaults' will know enough to un override it to get the pahe
looking OK agian, and if not sod em.

If you want really accurate fonts, download a PDF with embedded fonts in
it, or render the text into a bitmap..and teh devil take the hindmost.

HTML is NOT a precise page description language, its a text markup
language. Go with the flow..

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		width measurements? By: Michael Joel on Fri, 23 December 2011 02:45
		Re: width measurements? By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 23 December 2011 03:14
		Re: width measurements? By: houghi on Fri, 23 December 2011 18:27
		Re: width measurements? By: Gregor Kofler on Fri, 23 December 2011 08:23
		Re: width measurements? By: Michael Joel on Fri, 23 December 2011 15:30
		Re: width measurements? By: alvaro.NOSPAMTHANX on Fri, 23 December 2011 09:44
		Re: width measurements? By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 23 December 2011 13:47
		Re: width measurements? By: Denis McMahon on Fri, 23 December 2011 14:16

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