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Re: fixed width or resizable pages

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From: julian.rickards@ndm.gov.on.ca
Date: Nov 9, 2004 12:21PM

What about an elastic layout whereby body {width: 50ems;} (as an example)
whereby the 10 words/line would not change as the text size is changed?

Jules

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From: jens.meiert [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]

Of course, but it nonetheless /makes/ a difference. Using a fixed layout you
see, say, ten words per line and then enlarge the font that there are only
eight words per line -- doing this using a liquid layout where one line uses
the entire monitor width you'll see 40 words a line then decreasing the line
length to 32 words (still too much).