- From: jonathan chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:40:12 +0100
- To: "Rijk van Geijtenbeek" <rijk@iname.com>, <www-style@w3.org>
I think there may be a significant difference of meaning here, or perhaps your comment did not relate so directly as I imagined to the subject, Re: scale: font-size to % of client window? Rijk wrote No. What has the width of the parent element to do with the number of characters? my conception was that the font-size for 'jack' would change so that it always filled 15% of the width of the screen. so would a different 4 letters say 'meme' necessarily be in another font-size? my guess is not, for a given font. Are you concerned that the font-size be related to the client window size? thanks jonathan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rijk van Geijtenbeek" <rijk@iname.com> To: <www-style@w3.org> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 8:41 AM Subject: Re: scale: font-size to % of client window? > > Hello jonathan, > > On Friday, July 12, 2002 you wrote: > > > *Rijk wrote: The other thing I miss is being able to restrict the > > width of an element to a certain number of characters > > > sorry, my shorthand, often stretches a point.. > > would this meet your conception*? > > maybe > > > #a {width: 15%} > > <span id="a"> jack</span> > > No. What has the width of the parent element to do with the number of > characters? > > I'd like to be able to translate > > <pre width="80"> > > to > > pre { max-width: 80char;} > > This is for example useful when you want to style received plain text > e-mails or newsgroup messages on a webpage. > > > Greetings, > Rijk mailto:rijk@iname.com > > Mot du Jour: > Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. > > PS: I do follow this list, so there's no need to send duplicate mails. > They end up in the same mail folder anyway. > >
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