reading and converting web page HTML text

[Ken Ray]

> Apparently numbers less than 8 are interpreted as HTML relative size
> and larger numbers specify point size.
> 
> Could this have something to do with the recently mentioned problems
> with font sizes on Unix platforms? If somehow the rev unix engine is
> mixing these up, then something intended to be size 14 could display
> at size 4.  But I know very little about this stuff, it's just a
> thought.

Actually it's the way web browsers handled it a long time ago when "real"
font sizes were introduced; they had to remain backwards compatible with the
previous method but also adopt the new one.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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