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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You're arguing semantics, while others are describing changes to certain fonts that will make lines of text rendered in that font appear to have less empty space between them. The visual effect that the "font metric changers" are able to achieve is quantifiable. Call it whatever the hell you want.
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No, we don't get to call it whatever the hell we want. We don't get to retreat from verifiably false claims by moving the goalposts. Specific claims were made and those claims are false.
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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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It is not possible to "change the amount of space between the lines" by altering any of the font metrics. You cannot make that statement true by altering the definitions of the words involved. Whether we call it line-height, line spacing, or leading, the concept has had the same definition for 500 years. It's the distance from baseline to baseline. Understanding that is foundational to understanding the use of typography. Folks who don't understand line-height shouldn't be messing with font metrics.