- From: Christoph Päper via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:02:24 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
[Dael Jackson @ www-style (2017-02-13): [CSSWG] Minutes Seattle F2F 2017-01-11 Part VI: Writings Modes, CSS Tables, Values & Units 4](http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2017Feb/0053.html) Traditional pica notation #378 is discussed under the heading “Adding older typographic units”, actual units in “ciceros, didot, and ens”. > <plinss> didot (dt) where 15dt=16pt, cicero (cc) where 1cc=12dt, en=0.5em That’s exactly why I want didot points to be specified in CSS: They need a canonical abbreviation and definition and it should *not* be `15dt` = `16pt`, but `8dd` = `3mm`. They are continental European units, which should relate to the meter, not the English inch. (We could add different `dt` *and* `dd`, but why? CSS doesn’t share Knuth’s `bp`/`pt` distinction either.) -- GitHub Notification of comment by Crissov Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/315#issuecomment-279662618 using your GitHub account
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