css property font value is ringing parse error

pre {margin-left:30px;margin-right:0px;border:0px;padding:0px;
     color:red;font:bold 10pt monospace;white-space:pre}

rings a parsing error in amaya but validates in jigsaw...
was this just an unanticipated multiple value combination ???
false errors are as bad as not signalling an error when it should
xhtml 1.0 transitional mode ----  8.7.2 binary version on win98 
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Received on Friday, 25 February 2005 19:23:15 UTC