Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Page format

Given some plain text, how many parameters are there to format it for display on a screen?

  • Screen total width
  • Screen total height
  • Amount of space around the margins
  • Number of columns
  • Space between the columns
  • Space between paragraphs (if any)
  • Space between lines
  • Space between words (if not monospace font)
  • Space between characters
  • Font height
  • Font width
  • Font stroke thickness
  • Font thick/thin stroke ratio
  • Font slant angle
  • Font uppercase/lowercase height ratio
  • Serif width (if serif font)
  • Serif height (if serif font)
  • Background color
  • Foreground color
  • Various "alternate" colors
  • Underline distance
  • Underline thickness

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