[thelist] Re: CSS article

On Saturday, June 22, 2002, at 11:07  am, Mark Gallagher wrote:

> Points don't have any particular size.  It's completely arbitrary,
> depending on what the browser and/or OS decides to do with them.

1pt=1/72 of an inch.

Which isn't really predictable on-screen, but it *does* have a
particular size, and it's the measurement system which would be most
useful for print stylesheets.

Cheers

Martin
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