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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It's nothing to do with the user agent. It's not actually line height information in the font, but the metrics. I can change the metrics and change the amount of space between lines. I've done this for ADE & Kindle (KF8) and it's worked. So while technically correct that there is no line height information in a font, there are metrics that say how to render the space between lines and that can be changed.
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No, you are wrong. The line-height measures the baseline to baseline difference between two lines of text at the same em size. There is absolutely nothing you can do to a font to change that. You can change the metrics of the font to make it take up more of that space, but you really can't change the distance between the baselines. This is not some trivial disagreement. If I take rubber band with a diameter of 1 inch and stretch it across two posts that are 2 inches apart, I haven't decreased the distance between the posts. I've just distorted the shape of the rubber band. If you are changing the metrics of the font, you are just distorting the font and that's not anything related to changing line height.