Paul Novitski wrote:
At 5/27/2007 07:44 PM, Andrew Cunningham wrote:
The practice of setting body font size to 62.5% has some very
interesting assumptions built in. Any style sheet designed using this
supposition would be inappropriate for a fully internationalised site.
Please elaborate on this point. Is your statement based on the
assumption that body text will be sized at 1em, or that the column
widths will be fixed?
Neither. My assumption is that not all fonts in all scripts are measured
the same way and mixed script situations are even more problematic.
For Thai body text at 1.0 em with English words or phrases within the
text, the English content would need to be approximately 0.75em to
match the Thai text. Setting body type to a value significantly less
that one em will make Thai and English text (if English text is resized)
potentially illegible.
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Andrew Cunningham
Research and Development Coordinator
Vicnet, Public Libraries and Communications
State Library of Victoria
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Melbourne VIC 3000
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