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Originally Posted by hobnail
Imagine if you were to zoom in on the text. For example, with firefox you can zoom in and out on the page with ctl + and ctl -. Go to
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6122...-h/61221-h.htm
and scroll down to the body text and use ctl + and notice that the indentation stays the same relative to the text size, about the width of 2 letters. Using percent the indentation would get smaller as you zoom in. Which to me, at least, would be weird. |
I think you have it backwards. Isn't em a unit derived from that text's font size? I thought % was a fixed proportion of the line width. That page's behavior works exactly like what I would prefer.