Posted by dorayme on 10/26/07 09:44

In article <ffsbp4.cs.1@dylanparry.com>,
Dylan Parry <usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:
>
> > Doesn't this mean that if someone does not have the font you design
> > for then they don't get the benefit of the special typesetting you
> > are implementing? Or worse, that what is particularly excellent in
> > your preferred font, can look unacceptable in some other fonts?
>
> Not really. Typefaces, although varied, don't tend to be so overly
> different as to look terrible when working to a baseline that wasn't
> originally developed with that font. If you work with EM units, because
> they are relative to the typeface's own size, the only difference you'd
> notice is that some typefaces would take up more space on a page than
> others, but overall they would look consistent with themselves, which is
> what matters.
>

Perhaps when you have finished you might supply an example. My
motivation was stirred a bit by your "I've actually taken to
applying traditional typesetting techniques to my online texts
and started to write stylesheets working on a baseline with text,
line-height and margin all relative to each other. It really does
make text so much more visually appealing and easier on the eye."
caught my eye". Most authors, including me, tend to rely on the
defaults probably too much...

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dorayme

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