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Space around images? Olav 11-21-2007
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Posted by David Stone on November 22, 2007, 7:49 am
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> Rik Wasmus wrote:
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Rik Wasmus wrote:
> >>> 'g','j','y','q','p', characters which have some 'thingy' (help a
> >>> non-native speaker out here...)
> >>
> >> It is called a descender.
> >
> > Noted, I'll try to remember :)
>
> And the perky ones 'b','d','f','h','k','l','t' are call ascenders

Don't forget about the leading (pronounced as in the metal, lead, not
the taking a horse to water leading). That's the gap between one
line and the next.

Aren't fonts fun?

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on November 22, 2007, 9:39 am
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 David Stone wrote:
>
>> Rik Wasmus wrote:
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Rik Wasmus wrote:
>>>>> 'g','j','y','q','p', characters which have some 'thingy' (help a
>>>>> non-native speaker out here...)
>>>> It is called a descender.
>>> Noted, I'll try to remember :)
>> And the perky ones 'b','d','f','h','k','l','t' are call ascenders
>
> Don't forget about the leading (pronounced as in the metal, lead, not
> the taking a horse to water leading). That's the gap between one
> line and the next.

Yes and should take in account the ascender and decenter heights. It is
essentially the CSS property line-height

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Take care,

Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on November 23, 2007, 3:32 am
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Scripsit Jonathan N. Little:

> Yes and should take in account the ascender and decenter heights. It
> is essentially the CSS property line-height

No it isn't. Ascenders and descenders are to be taken account by the
font designer: they should more or less fit into the limits set by the
font size. The line-height property is the distance between baselines of
texts and it is (and generally should be) larger than the font size.

And it's a CSS property.

There's nothing on-topic to be seen here. Dissolve!

--
Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/


Posted by Ben C on November 23, 2007, 3:48 am
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> Scripsit Jonathan N. Little:

>>> Don't forget about the leading (pronounced as in the metal,
>>> lead, not the taking a horse to water leading). That's the
>>> gap between one line and the next.

>> Yes and should take in account the ascender and decenter heights. It
>> is essentially the CSS property line-height
>
> No it isn't. Ascenders and descenders are to be taken account by the
> font designer: they should more or less fit into the limits set by the
> font size. The line-height property is the distance between baselines of
> texts and it is (and generally should be) larger than the font size.

Just to clarify: in CSS leading is line-height minus font-size. Half the
leading goes above and half below.

You can set the line-height to less than the font-size and therefore get
negative leading, although I don't know why you would want to.

> And it's a CSS property.
>
> There's nothing on-topic to be seen here. Dissolve!

I've set the Followup-To.

Posted by Jonathan N. Little on November 23, 2007, 10:25 am
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Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
> Scripsit Jonathan N. Little:
>
>> Yes and should take in account the ascender and decenter heights. It
>> is essentially the CSS property line-height
>
> No it isn't. Ascenders and descenders are to be taken account by the
> font designer: they should more or less fit into the limits set by the
> font size. The line-height property is the distance between baselines of
> texts and it is (and generally should be) larger than the font size.
>
> And it's a CSS property.


You've sniped what I was referring to distorting my remarks. Of course
line-height is a a CSS property, what I said was the CSS property
"line-height" is essentially typographical term "leading". It has kind
of changed of time now that typesetting done by computers, because
leading use to be only the space between the bottom of one line of text
and the top of the other. Now they include the font height so it is
equivalent to the line-height property.

--
Take care,

Jonathan
-------------------
LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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