Posted by dorayme on 10/25/07 03:52

In article <13i00pvtcpof7fe@corp.supernews.com>,
Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> wrote:

> dorayme wrote:

> >
> > The op is asking how people cope with such small sizes when so
> > coded. He is perhaps unaware at this stage about the issue and is
> > groping for background. If he knew that in some browsers, eg, a
> > px or pt based font size, was hard to up in size on the screen
> > but that it is no barrier (just a nuisance) in other browsers, he
> > might appreciate it.
> >
> ??? Small? Ten point is standard on some typewriters and seems to be
> the size one sees of text in NGs...

Gosh... typewriters... now *that* takes me back! I doubt if I
would now be happy with the output from my first typewriter which
was indeed in 10pt. First thing in the morning, under reasonable
light, maybe... as the day wears on... nah...

I don't think anyone has the energy to keep going over this stuff
but I took another casual look at what was on the internet and I
found this on a site that was devoted to advice on css and html:

http://www.basictips.com/which-font-size-px-pt-em.shtml

I mention it because there is a lot of bad advice about. OP
should not be fooled in researches.

Here is some more sensible stuff:

http://k75s.home.att.net/fontsize.html

Here is something on points that starts with a promising "Many
beginning CSS authors use points to size text, in part because
many of them come from a desktop publishing background, where
everything is set in points. However, points are a very bad unit
for screen-based design"

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=UsingPoints

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dorayme

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