Posted by City Dweller on 04/06/06 23:41

Wow, what an asshole! Thanks for nothing, fucker.

-- Abe


"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote in message
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> "City Dweller" <city@dweller.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone here know how browsers calculate the leading (vertical
>> distance between base lines) in a paragrap?
>
> _In_ a paragraph?
>
>> For example, consider this HTML code:
>>
>> LINE1<P>LINE2
>
> It's poor code. The <P> tag is the start tag of a paragraph. Why would you
> use it between _lines_?
>
>> How is the vertical difference between the baselines of LINE1 and LINE2
>> calculated?
>
> This gets more and more confusing. Such a vertical distance depends on
> many
> factors, but I'm afraid you cannot understand the issue before you
> understand
> the basics of HTML.
>
>> I am writing an HTML rendering application
>
> Oh my.
>
> By the way, what makes you think you should imitate web browsers? They do
> not
> imitate the rendering principles of traditional typography. If you don't
> want
> to just use a web browser (and perhaps tune the rendering with a style
> sheet), why don't you start designing a _good_ layout engine? But you'll
> need
> to learn HTML first.
>
> --
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>
>

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