[cairo] [Bug 90166] Add a way to specify units (in SVG output)

Adrian Johnson ajohnson at redneon.com
Mon Oct 16 08:02:10 UTC 2017


On 16/10/17 18:24, David Kastrup wrote:
> Frankly, this is not just the "SVG abbreviations".  It's TeX terminology
> as well as used in HTML/CSS.  Programmers will tend to know the two
> character abbreviations better than the long names (FONT_X ? For real?).
> 
> This does not look like an actual improvement to me.  That it prompts a
> bikeshedding discussion should be proof enough that this makes things
> more rather than less arbitrary and harder rather than easier to guess.

I'm open to suggestions.


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