reading and converting web page HTML text

[Peter Brigham MD]

On Mar 7, 2010, at 10:51 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

>
>> 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.

OK. But could this be what isn't working right in Rev on the unix  
platforms, or is that unlikely?

-- Peter

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