Anika Henke wrote:
Hi!
Chris Smith wrote:I notice dokuwiki has some line-height property values in ems.As you proved yourself by the sentence stated below, it does *not* completely amount to the same thing ... ;-)
Should we remove the em or make them percents (which amounts to the same thing)?
You misunderstand me.
line-height: 1.5 is equivalient to line-height: 150%.
Using em is sensible for most things. For font-size I prefer % for esoteric reasons (although they are functionally equivalent here). And for line-height em is more restrictive than a ratio (plain number or %).
As I understand it, if there is a font-size change in a nested element, an inherited line-height using em units will not change - ie, it won't be recalculated for the new font-size. A line-height value using a unitless number or a percent will be inherited as a ratio and the actual line-height will be recalculated.
Hmm. I could not rebuild that behaviour (if I understood you correctly).
If you ask what unit should be taken in general or what advantages and disadvantages they have: I for one am nearly always using em. But that is most probably only because I am used to it. And that's also the reason for me not knowing much about percent.
Personally, I don't care for one way or the other in DokuWiki. But it should be *consistent*. If you liked to make the DokuWiki styles reasonably so, I am not in your way. :-)I will submit a patch to Andi, (and if I remember I'll prepare a sample page to highlight the differences between em and plain ratio.
Chris
-- DokuWiki mailing list - more info at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:mailinglist
