[css2] In 15.2.4, fixed x-height divided by font size = aspect ratio

ianbjacobs · ianbjacobs · commit 094ef9e698eb · 2000-08-08T17:16:39.000Z
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diff --git a/css2/errata.src b/css2/errata.src
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ hspace="0"></a><br clear="all"></p>
 <dd><a href="_THE_UPDATE_DIR_/_THE_ID_-errata.html">
 _THE_UPDATE_DIR_/_THE_ID_-errata.html</a>
 <dt>Last revised: 
-<dd>$Date: 2000-08-02 15:17:01 $
+<dd>$Date: 2000-08-08 17:16:39 $
 </dl>
 
 <dl>
@@ -274,6 +274,10 @@ explanation for the variable "a" is missing and should read:</P>
      a = aspect value of first-choice font
 </PRE> 
 
+<P>In the sentence beginning "In bicameral scripts..." change
+"(font size divided by x-height)" to 
+"(x-height divided by font size)".
+
 <h3><a href="fonts.html#generic-font-families">Section 15.2.6</a></h3>
 
 <P>'Totum' and 'Kodic' is not a 'serif' but 'sans-serif'. 'pathang' is
diff --git a/css2/fonts.src b/css2/fonts.src
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
 <html lang="en">
-<!-- $Id: fonts.src,v 2.58 2000-08-02 14:59:46 ijacobs Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: fonts.src,v 2.59 2000-08-08 17:16:08 ijacobs Exp $ -->
 <HEAD>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
 <TITLE>Fonts</TITLE>
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ class="propinst-font-size">'font-size'</span> value than on the value
 of their <span class="descinst-x-height">'x-height'</span>, or, more
 usefully, on the ratio of these two values, called the <span
 class="index-def" title="aspect value"><dfn>aspect value</dfn></span>
-(font size divided by x-height). The higher the aspect value, the more
+(x-height divided by font size). The higher the aspect value, the more
 likely it is that a font at smaller sizes will be legible. Inversely,
 faces with a lower aspect value will become illegible more rapidly
 below a given threshold size than faces with a higher aspect
