Re: [RFC/PATCH 2/8] docbook: improve css style

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 23, 2009, 10:31 UTC
Message-ID: <94a0d4530903230331g3b620f80h77e317a09dc5273f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090323064242.GB1119@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>
>>  tt.literal, code.literal {
>>    color: navy;
>> +  font-size: 1em;
>> +}
>
> Isn't 1em already the default size? Or are you trying to override some
> other size specification elsewhere? It's hard to tell what the goal is
> because your commit message merely says "improve".

That's correct.

The problem is that when the user has a different size for the sans-serif and monospace fonts it looks horrible when they are on the same paragraph. I thought 1em did the trick, but you are right, it doesn't.

It looks like the only way to fix this is to set absolute sizes.

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Felipe Contreras