- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:09:08 +0200 (MET)
- To: Hakon Lie <howcome@w3.org>, Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com>, www-style@w3.org
On Jul 20, 11:29pm, Hakon Lie wrote: > Lee wrote > > While that's a good definition, typesetting practice /never/ uses "em" > > as vertical measurement; an em is a horizontal measurement only, and an > > "ex" is the vertical measurement. So why the term 'em square'? > > This makes measurements based on > > fonts size work with compressed an/or fat fonts. That is a reasonable point. However, in CSS1, a highly stretched 12pt font and a highly condensed 12pt font would both have an em size of -- 12pt. So, that case already works. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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