Re: Font stretching?

Scripsit Ole Streicher:

Is there really no way to
override the "100 % means normal size" behaviour of sizing fonts to
"100 % means full cell height"?

In CSS, no. Doing such things in JavaScript might be possible, but
overkill.

You don't really want to size fonts to the cell height. Rather, you want
to parts of your mathematical expression to have matching sizes, which
means, among other things, that parentheses may need to be several times
larger than normal characters. This is manageable, though not easy and
nice; see my
"Math in HTML (and CSS)",
especially section
"Towards two-dimensionality",
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/math/#twodim

Beware that this is a font issue too: the characteristics of parentheses
vary by font, and the differences become big when the font size gets
big. You might even consider using a separate font for large parentheses
for this reason.

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