Re: [css3-text] <spacing-limit> incompatible with calc due to different treatment of lengths and %s from fantasai on 2012-01-06 (www-style@w3.org from January 2012)

From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:22:15 -0500
To: www-style@w3.org
Message-ID: <4F068507.8070708@inkedblade.net>

On 01/05/2012 11:58 PM, Stephen Zilles wrote:
> Tab,
> Apologies for a top post
>
> I do not see your problem. To me 150% is equivalent to 1.5ch. So, 1.5ch+150% is equivalent to 1.5ch+1.5ch. That is, both
> values return a length and lengths add. Why do you think this does not make sense?

It's not equivalent. 150% is 150% of the width of the affected word-spacing character.
1.5ch is 150% of the advance width of the '0' character.

~fantasai

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