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Re: What's an em

From: Just van Rossum <just@letterror.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 00:56:00 +0100
Message-Id: <l03102805b4bd21b87119@[193.78.237.125]>
To: erik@netscape.com (Erik van der Poel)
Cc: Karlsson Kent - keka <keka@im.se>, www-style@w3.org, "'www-font@w3.org'" <www-font@w3.org> 
At 3:24 PM -0800 01-02-2000, Erik van der Poel wrote:
>If so, the "Pointsize" isn't the only thing that means anything. CSS2
>claims that the ex/em ratio is important.

I'm not saying it's important, I'm saying you can't reliably *get* at that
ratio, and that renders the whole discussion rather meaningless.

Just
Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2000 18:55:42 EST

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