Re: [Resent: Disadvantages of ch unit (was: stability of root em unit spec)]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Dave Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
> At 11:34  -0800 9/01/09, Thomas Phinney wrote:
>>
>> FWIW, in most (though by no means all) fonts, the digits are
>> monospaced, even if the font is not.
>>
>> That being said, I agree that knowing the width of the zero alone,
>> without knowing for sure that the digits are monospaced, would seem to
>> be of limited value.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> T
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> off the top of my head
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> perhaps it should be defined to be "the monospaced digit width, if there are
> both digits and they are monospaced, else 0"?

Makes sense to me.

T