Re: understanding scaling factors for % and EM

Tim Rivera wrote:
> > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#value-def-absolute-size
> > recommends a 1.2 scaling factor for "absolute" font sizes, and suggests
> > a base font size of 12.
> >
> > Here's what I came up with:
> >    large = 14.4px
> >  medium = 12px
> Your conversion chart uses the wrong length unit. The spec says:
> "if the 'medium' font is 12pt, the 'large' font could be 14.4pt"
I recognized that the W3 was saying PT and I was talking PX.

However the scaling factor remains 1.2 whether the unit is 12pt or 12px.

TjL


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