Re: "em" should be horizontal, "ex" vertical from David Perrell on 1997-08-11 (www-html@w3.org from August 1997)

From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:10:02 -0700
To: "Peter Flynn" <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
Cc: <www-html@w3.org>
Message-Id: <199708111712.KAA17117@norway.it.earthlink.net>

Peter Flynn wrote:
> Not silly. It _was_ once the width of an M, at some time in the past
> when an M was assumed to be as wide as it was high.

And a mite bit farther back in time, folks once removed a shoe to
measure a foot, which, for obvious reasons, was primarily a horizontal
measure.

David Perrell

Received on Monday, 11 August 1997 13:13:51 UTC