- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:54:30 +0100
- To: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@iname.com>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
Also sprach Rijk van Geijtenbeek:
> I read somewhere that the rationale for not using percentages related
> to the container for fonts, was that the percentages would become
> really small. If you use factors, the values whould be even smaller :)
Yes. Another potential unit is "average characters per line" or
something. It gets a bit fuzzy and language-dependent with propotional
fonts, but it's a nicer number to look at.
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie cto °þe®ª
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