Rob Stevenson schrieb: > On 22 Aug 2007, at 10:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I'm working for a company in which the boss (who's originally from the >> print industry) insists on having equal line lengths in the >> browsers on >> different operating systems. >> >> So in an example text, "hello, i'm example text!", if the text is >> split to >> the following line at "example" on Firefox Windows, it must be >> split at >> "example" in Firefox Mac/Safari as well. > > I had to do something similar for a site owned by a 'print person' > who insisted that lines be the recommended-for-reading-in-books > length of somewhere around 7 words per line. > > It was a simple matter to specify the width of the containing element > (the site's old enough that this used to be a table cell, but it's > now a DIV). I use EMs as the unit of measure, which with the usual > caveats, will give -- in most browsers most of the time, which is as > good as it gets -- a similar line length. > > The exact line length may not be precise to the pixel across browsers > and OSes, but words being chunky, it works well enough. > > Rob > > There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - > Leonard Cohen, musician (1934-) > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ >
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