Re: A proposal for units in GTK+

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

James Henstridge wrote:
> Noah Levitt wrote:
>
> > CSS seems to define an em as the font's height.
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1#length-units
> >
> > H1 { margin: 0.5em }      /* ems, the height of the element's font */
> >  
> The size of an em is calculated based on the height of the font, but it 
> is traditionally used as a measure of width (in one of the sources I 
> looked at, it said that the em size is chosen such that an "em space" is 
> roughly square).

So what happens in teh case on the numerous fons where it is nowhere close 
to a square?

> James.



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