Re: Table with huge vertical spaces with Firefox

On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:35:13 -0400, C A Upsdell wrote:

John Hosking wrote:

No! No, I did *not* write all this. I wrote only the part that begins "I am
semi-clueless". Please get a semi-clue of your own and retain attributions
for quoted text.


It is possible that the fault lies with the particular font that is
chosen to display the Unicode characters. This would also explain why
the problem is apparent on some systems, and not on others.
Ah!!!!

On my PC the problem *appears* to occur only with serif fonts and with
one monospace font (Constantia).

The problem does not appear to occur with sans-serif fonts and most
monospace fonts (e.g. Andale, Courier New).
Meanwhile, I tried to see the same page using Firefox 3.5 on four
different machines, all of them running Windows XP. I see the problem in
two of them but not on the other two. And there is a pattern here: the
two machines on which I have the problem use the Portuguese version of
Windows XP, whereas the other two use the English version. I don't see
how to connect this to your explanation.

I am semi-clueless on this, but I would not be too amazed if Microsoft
installed slightly different versions of whatever serif font(s) you are
testing with (system defaults, apparently). I can easily imagine that the
problem was noticed and fixed for English XP installs, but they juuuust
haven't gotten around to it in the Portuguese version yet.

Well, I have the problem, and my PC is English XP SP3 with all the
latest updates, including all the latest fonts for XP.

Well then, we see that my cluelessness in regard to font heights and
Microsoft is indeed formidable. I'm so proud. ;-)

But still, please trim irrelevant texts from your reply (I've left rather
too much here, myself). Contributions you don't trim deserve attribution
lines.

--
John
Now, do you suppose the International Emglish version is different from the
US English or UK English versions? I'm just wondering...
.

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