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Re: What's an em

From: Clive Bruton <clive@typonaut.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 01:42:36 +0000
To: <www-style@w3.org>, <www-font@w3.org>
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Todd Fahrner wrote at 02/02/00 01:09

>If the requirement were for the level of precision and optical 
>refinement appropriate to hand-set materials (or even better DTP), I 
>would agree.

Shouldn't that be the aim?

>I think the 
>exhibits in CSS-2 speak for themselves.

In that it's unrealistic to compare a sans with a large x-height with a 
semi-calligraphic script with a small x-height?


-- Clive
Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2000 20:42:42 GMT

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