> This is perhaps not the best place to discuss that, but thinking > about it, I don't understand why text-font-size is dimensionless > (when it actually does have a dimension). Wouldn't text-font-size = > 12 \pt be more intuitive (and, at the same time, allowing also other > units)?
This is due to history. I agree that it would be better if it had a dimension attached to it. Werner