OT: CSS details

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>Jay R. Ashworth wrote
>
>>So "px" actually means "90th of an inch".  Does "pt" always mean ...
>>no, I'll just go look.
>>
>
>"point" means 1/72 of an inch.
>I grew up in an evironment where acutal type was something that you held 
>in your hand was while not used everyday, were on the shelves. Quite fun 
>for a toddler in the JFK years.

Those of us who grew up using variations of *roff learned to set
things in units of a particular font, em, en, etc. so that they
automatically adjust depending on the selected font.

FWIW, I still use groff for many things, and sent a resume to
somebody recently who commented on how nice it looked compared to
what she was accustomed to seeing out of M$-Word.

Bill
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