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Originally Posted by dgatwood
This one, I disagree with. Here's why. Setting line height can make certain things possible. For example, drop caps. If you don't set the line height, it becomes highly dependent on the font, which means that changes to your font result in severe formatting breakage.
Also, for some fonts, the calculated line height ends up being less than 1.2, and if you don't force it up to 1.2 either by redesigning the font or by setting line-height, you'll end up with different layout in different readers. (Oops.)
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Line height is something that affects presentation and readability in a big way. Default line heights are not set arbitrarily for fonts and readers, they should be carefully chosen to fit the font. If I got an epub where I realised that the creator chose to *destroy* the whole body text in order to incorporate completely superfluous eye candy like drop caps (which you *can't* do properly in epubs anyway), I would be very annoyed (and correct it). Seriously, get the entire chapter wrong for a drop cap?
If your font is broken, I suppose you might correct that, but that sounds like a very badly wrought font which you maybe should avoid in the first place.
I don't agree with the point made by Agama in reply to your post either. Even if you have occasional superscripts which can erroneously cause a few lines to be rendered with too much space on some readers (my prs-650 does this), that's no reason to style *every* line wrongly.
No, this one definitely stays in the list
