Imagine using Helvetica for English text and a unique, exotic font (from an ASCII perspective) for another language on the same page.
Even with the same font size, one font may appear larger to the eye.
Is it possible to specify different font sizes for different fonts used within a single page?
In addition, as these two languages may be mixed together in one line of text, proper alignment is crucial after resizing one of the fonts. Otherwise, the smaller font could create inconsistencies in line spacing, with larger line spacing at the top and smaller line spacing at the bottom.
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Impressive responses thus far.
Unfortunately, this text was user-posted like questions on Stack Overflow - without different classes assigned to the fonts.