Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 06/01/07 06:49

Scripsit Ben C:

> Various websites do say [that the em unit is] a measure of width, e.g.
> http://www.fontfactory.com/glossary.php.

There's a lot of bogus information around, and such statements are useful
bogosity indicators. On that particular page, you can see other bogosity
indicators as well, such as "Extended ASCII", "90º" (using masculine ordinal
indicator instead of degree sign - and they claim to be "Type
Professionals"!), "Circero" (for "Cicero"), etc. - I stopped scanning when I
saw a claim that the circumflex is used in Italian.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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