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  1. Bug #310353
  2. Comment #83

Comment 83 for bug 310353

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 310353] Re: Default font size too large if using native DPI

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:12:43AM -0000, Endolith wrote:
> > 10 without any unit is supposed to mean point unit.
>
> Well, according to that article it doesn't necessarily have any
> meaningful units.

Not sure where you read that. I worked quite a lot on the code
surounding this, and with any units is "point"

>
> On my screen, with 128 pixels per inch, the "8" setting is pretty good.
> If I create monospace text in Firefox at 8pt or the equivalent 14.2px,
> it is the same size as text in Gedit.
>

Right. So no unit == point ;).

 - Alexander