Re: Ems in tables

Jon_Bosak@Novell.COM
Mon, 3 Apr 95 21:45:09 EDT

[Larry Masinter:]

> If a table mixes fonts, you could choose for the em-size:
>
> default for document
> minimum
> maximum
> average
> median
> most commonly used font
>
> I'm starting to lean toward 'maximum' as giving a more likely method
> of achieving this goal: [etc.]

But why bother? What is it that you believe specifying a table in ems
gives you? It's not scalability. What else is there?

Jon

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