Re: A proposal for units in GTK+

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

Could you explain why "em may not be suitable as a vertical
unit if the the x-height of the font is big"? I'm not
disagreeing with your conclusion, I think it's probably a
good idea to have both em and ex. I just don't understand
this sentence and am curious.

Noah

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 15:24:40 +0100, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> UI design has typographical aspects, I think. If units are added to
> gtk+, I think having both ex and em is important, because an em may
> not be suitable as a vertical unit if the the x-height of the font is
> big.
> 
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