My first post, since I've worked in print longer than web. In print, an em (and en) are mostly used to describe dashes (of the width of M and N) in a font. So they are appropriate to the task when used for that. They have been slightly redefined for the web (since an en is not always half an en):
An “em” is a unit of measurement defined as the point size of the font—12 point type uses a 12 point “em.” An “en” is one-half of an “em.” http://www.alistapart.com/articles/emen/
Best regards,
Marilyn Langfeld
http://www.langfeldesigns.com
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On Nov 14, 2004, at 6:48 AM, Iain Harrison wrote:
Sunday, November 14, 2004, 11:22:18 AM, Rob wrote:
I find the description of font-size a bit dodgy,
I agree. Defining a font size in terms of a unit that is based on a
font size seems pretty stupid to me too, but that's how it is. There
are lots of stupidities around.
Here in the UK, we use words like "referrer" "colour" "centre" and
so on. Seems that HTML is based on a foreign language.
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Iain
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