Re: makeinfo and CSS

[Torsten Bronger]

Halloechen!

address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     2. Use 'inherit' instead of 'serif'.
>
> Thanks.  That seems cleaner than serif, although I think it's still not
> perfect.  If the current font happens to be bold or something when the
> @format starts, it seems the @format text is also be bold, not roman?

No, CSS implements something similar to LaTeX's NFSS: There are
font-family, -variant, -weight etc.  If you set font-family to
'inherit' the only problem could be that the context was already in
monospaced.  But according to Texinfo's standard syntax I can't
construct something where this happens.  (And if I could, it
wouldn't make much sense probably.)

> So there is no simple value meaning "go back to the default font"?
> How annoying :).

No, indeed not.  The reason for this is that an HTML element with
CSS style only knows how its parent looks like.  It doesn't know the
properties of the other ancestors.  The expression "default font" is
difficult to define within *C*SS.

Tschoe,
Torsten.