Re: What's an em (was RE: Units, font sizing, and zoom suggestion for CSS 3)

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Karlsson Kent - keka wrote:
> 
> So Erik, please revive your proposal (and, originally, my) to define
> an em the same way in CSS as it is in TeX (which does pick it up from
> not only historical but also modern typography).

The proposal was definitely originally yours. I supported it for a
while, but I got tired swimming against the current.

Erik