Thread: base font size ? What unit should I use ?
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Old 05-04-2010, 09:58 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Defining paragraph intents in "em" is absolutely fine. Same applies to line indents for poetry; you want them to scale with the text.
Would you be so kind to elaborate on a difference between page margins and poetry indentation?

For example, what's wrong with the following practice:
- "normal" text: margin-left==margin-right==5% (of the page width)
- poetry: margin-left==margin-right==10%(of the page width)
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