[css2] adding Todd's image descriprions for font-size-adjust

howcom · howcom · commit 3c37b4894e7d · 1998-05-05T16:53:15.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/fonts.src b/css2/fonts.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: fonts.src,v 2.48 1998-05-05 14:48:23 bbos Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: fonts.src,v 2.49 1998-05-05 16:53:15 howcome Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Fonts</TITLE>
@@ -577,27 +577,28 @@ unavailable and an available font had an aspect value of 0.46, the
 font-size of the substitute would be 14 * (0.58/0.46) = 17.65px.
 </div>
 
-<P>Font size adjustments are based on the <a
-href="cascade.html#computed-value">computed value</a> of <span
-class="propinst-font-size">'font-size'</span>.
+<P>Font size adjustments take place when computing the <a
+href="cascade.html#actual-value">actual value</a> of <span
+class="propinst-font-size">'font-size'</span>. Since inheritance is
+based on the <a href="cascade.html#computed-value">computed value</a>,
+child elements will inherit unadjusted values.
 
-<P>The first image below shows several typefaces as rasterized on a
-Macintosh at 12-point, together with their aspect values. No matter what
-the typographical family (or nominal base size, unit, or platform),
-faces with higher aspect values look bigger than those with lower aspect values.
-Faces with very low aspect values are illegible at the size shown.</p>
+
+<P>The first image below shows several typefaces rasterized at a
+common font size (11pt. at 72 ppi), together with their aspect
+values. Note that faces with higher aspect values appear larger than
+those with lower. Faces with very low aspect values are illegible at
+the size shown.</p>
 
 <P><img src="images/font-adjust-a.gif" alt="Comparison of 12 point fonts"></p>
 
 <P>The next image shows the results of <span
-class="propinst-font-size-adjust">'font-size-adjust'</span> with the
-fonts shown in the previous image. These fonts' em sizes range all the
-way up to 25-point, but appear subjectively to be about as large as
-12-point Verdana, whose aspect value served as the base for scaling. As
-adjusted, the legibility characteristics of these faces on screen are
-nearly linear across faces. Note that <span
-class="propinst-font-size-adjust">'font-size-adjust'</span> tends to
-stabilize the horizontal metrics of lines, as well.
+class="propinst-font-size-adjust">'font-size-adjust'</span> where Verdana has
+been taken as the"first choice", together with the scaling factor applied.
+As adjusted, the apparent sizes are nearly linear across faces, though the
+actual (em) sizes vary by more than 100%. Note that <span
+class="propinst-font-size-adjust">'font-size-adjust'</span> 
+tends to stabilize the horizontal metrics of lines, as well.
 
 <P><img src="images/font-adjust-b.gif" alt="Comparison of font-adjusted fonts"></p>
 
