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Re: Using inline.monoseq in FO (fwd)
- From: David Tolpin <dvd at renderx dot com>
- To: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:34:28 +0400 (AMT)
- Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: Using inline.monoseq in FO (fwd)
> / Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> was heard to say:
> | Why is it a great problem? The result should be 90% of the paragraph
> | size in the first case and 90% of the title size in the second.
>
> And on further inspection, it just looks awful. Setting the font size
> on the basis of "em"s is just wrong. It really should be based on
> relative "ex" heights and those aren't available. I think I'll abandon
> the crude attempt to make monospaced fonts look a little more
> aesthetically sized.
>
font-size-adjust is just for this purpose, by the way. Assigning it a known
value will make symbols from different fonts look similar in size.
David