Re: Making pt a non-physical unit

2010/1/6 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>:
> There should have been and be some mechanism that prevents attempts to render
> fonts in sizes that can't get the job done. That might mean either resorting
> to bitmaps or some nearest neighbor type mechanism to translate an em or %
> request for a (CJK) font into a size that can work for the viewer.
>
> That some CJK fonts only work right at certain sizes not an excuse to use px
> for sizing before such time as all users can set the size of a px to meet
> their legibility and usability requirements.

You are missing the point. The fact that CJK fonts *used to* only work
at certain sizes is *precisely* because they were bitmaps. Therefore
if you are proposing using bitmaps to fudge things, then you *must*
allow px sizes.

-- 
cheers,
-ambrose

Received on Wednesday, 6 January 2010 21:54:40 UTC