Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?]
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:47:25PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote:
> Lo, on Saturday, May 18, Hans Ekbrand did write:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 03:40:47PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> True; it's long been understood in the professional typesetting
> community that lines which are too long are difficult to read. I've
> even seen discussions of what `too long' means---I think it's a function
> of how long the font's em-space is, but I don't remember the details off
> the top of my head.
It's a function of Typeface, leading, and kerning.
Tightly set lines (little space between letters, and little space
between lines) need shorter lines. Loosely set lines (opening up the
space between the lines, and opening up the letter spacing a bit
(but, obviously not too much)) can be longer.
> (Add this to the fact that most on-screen computer fonts, IMO, don't
> have enough leading, and you've got serious legibility problems.)
The typefaces don't do the leading (well, sort of but not really),
it's the application that decides it.
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