RE: Technique 3.4.A [priority 2] Check document for relative or absolute units. from Harvey Bingham on 2000-03-09 (w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org from March 2000)

From: Harvey Bingham <hbingham@acm.org>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 23:36:36 -0500
To: <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
Message-Id: <4.3.2.20000308231900.00bdbcf0@pop.tiac.net>

At 2000-01-26 18:34-0500, Michael Cooper wrote:
>Looks good - I'd add the "ex" unit (about half an em) to the list of
>acceptable values. Michael

What is your reference for "ex"? The printing tradition uses "en" as
half an "em". Unfortunately "en" is also used with language: lang="en"
For that matter <em>...</em> are used for emphasis.

The entities: ensp   CDATA &#8194; and
               ndash  CDATA &#8211;
in the html40  htmlspec.ent file, defined as half an em wide.

Regards/Harvey

Received on Thursday, 9 March 2000 01:18:12 UTC