- From: Del Merritt <del@alum.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:09:22 -0400
- To: Bert Bos <bert@w3.org>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
On Tuesday 29 August 5:11, Bert Bos wrote: > On Tuesday 22 August 2006 21:34, Christoph Päper wrote: > >> In <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/metric-typo/> Markus Kuhn writes >> about metric font sizes. You can use 'font-size' with millimetres and >> centimetres already, which is good, but I wonder whether we could add >> |q| as an alias for quarter an millimetre like according to that >> document Japanese typographers traditionally use (the linked source >> is a 404 though) and DIN 16507-2 proposes as a modulus. >> > > It's the first time I hear a request for a 'q' and the argument seems a > bit weak... > Darn. If that had passed muster, I was rather hoping to get "furlong" into the unit mix. Abbreviated as "fu", of course. -Del
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