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Scripsit Eric B. Bednarz:

For any piece of copy with more than one font family and/or size,
it’s a rather silly assumption that the grid would not be relevant
(if it is possible is an entirely different question).

This is getting interesting, though apparently off-topic (baseline grids
would belong to CSS rather than HTML). I'm curious, because the way I
see the idea of the grid, it's meant to serve the purpose of making
facing pages (in a printed publication) symmetric in form. What would be
the point in a continuous medium like a scrollable window?

That is, for example, why would it be useful to position lines of text
in a grid, so that, for example, if you leave some vertical space after
a list, the space is an integral multiple of the line height?

And how _could_ you make an image

I do know how to do that, and it works very well; not on your OS
though, I suppose.

I don't think it depends on the OS. Rather, the issue is: When you are
not making print design, how could you make the total vertical space
occupied by an image an integral multiple of the line height?

or a table, for example

Well, relative font sizing is rather inconsistent, I can agree there.

Even if you used, gasp, fixed font size and fixed line height in, say,
points or pixels, how could you make a table, together with its top and
bottom margin, take a height that is a multiple of the line height? You
would end up with setting pretty much _everything_, including the
heights of rows, in points or pixels, and there goes almost all
flexibility.

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"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela (AT) cs (DOT) tut.fi> writes:

Scripsit Eric B. Bednarz:

For any piece of copy with more than one font family and/or size,
it’s a rather silly assumption that the grid would not be relevant
(if it is possible is an entirely different question).

This is getting interesting, though apparently off-topic (baseline
grids would belong to CSS rather than HTML).

Agreed, followup set.

I'm curious, because the
way I see the idea of the grid, it's meant to serve the purpose of
making facing pages (in a printed publication) symmetric in form. What
would be the point in a continuous medium like a scrollable window?

That is, for example, why would it be useful to position lines of text
in a grid, so that, for example, if you leave some vertical space
after a list, the space is an integral multiple of the line height?

I see your point, but I see vertical symmetry on a single page as well.
(beyond your example, e.g. headings can be placed in a multiple of
line-height/leading of body copy; once you start to care, it is hard not
to notice, but everybody’s mileage may differ, of course :-)

I don't think it depends on the OS. Rather, the issue is: When you are
not making print design, how could you make the total vertical space
occupied by an image an integral multiple of the line height?

By making its height a multiple of the line height. The only question
is, is the result satisfactory? On OS X (10.4/10.5) it is, on XP it
isn't, as far as I remember, I gotta check Vista tomorrow.
Although browsers might have special capabilities included, my
impression is that it is an OS feature IRL. Resizing jpeg images in any
browser on OS X works great over here.

Even if you used, gasp, fixed font size and fixed line height in, say,
points or pixels, how could you make a table, together with its top
and bottom margin, take a height that is a multiple of the line
height? You would end up with setting pretty much _everything_,
including the heights of rows, in points or pixels, and there goes
almost all flexibility.

I’d appreciate a real world example; there are almost always constraints
in terms of horizontal space sooner or later (table or image), but I
think I’m just missing your point.


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