As an old-school type nerd, it kills me that there's no reliable way to tease out and use the full set of positioning metrics in HTML/CSS-land.
I've had a hell of a time accurately placing text by its baseline. Could be that I'm missing something obvious, but I've had to do trial-and-error for a given face & size, and then it's only an approximation. Not a robust solution.
(Phrased another way -- HTML does "box text" and doesn't provide the metrics or style attributes necessary to place it with the accuracy that one would with "point text")
As an old-school type nerd, it kills me that there's no reliable way to tease out and use the full set of positioning metrics in HTML/CSS-land.
I've had a hell of a time accurately placing text by its baseline. Could be that I'm missing something obvious, but I've had to do trial-and-error for a given face & size, and then it's only an approximation. Not a robust solution.
(Phrased another way -- HTML does "box text" and doesn't provide the metrics or style attributes necessary to place it with the accuracy that one would with "point text")