Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively

From	Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively
Date	2021-09-01 05:10 +0200
Organization	PointedEars Software (PES)
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Andrew Poulos wrote:

> The project has: extensive style sheets; JavaScript which does
> modification of existing font sizing; and, it accepts pasting in text
> (with formatting: size colour, font...).
> 
> I suppose I can edit the style sheets, and search through the code and
> edit any instance that sets a font size, and finally post process any
> pasted text but is there some way that doesn't require me to go through
> thousands of line of code one line at a time?

The main problem is the initial decision to not use a dynamic stylesheet 
language like LESS or SASS to make the font sizes depend on each other, or 
at least to be able to change only variable definitions.

So now there is no way other than clever search-and-replace operations in 
all stylesheet files using regular expressions.

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Using CSS clamp retrospectively Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2021-08-24 19:53 +1000
  Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-08-24 09:32 -0700
    Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2021-08-25 08:04 +1000
      Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-08-24 19:21 -0700
        Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively Andrew Poulos <ap_prog@hotmail.com> - 2021-08-26 08:05 +1000
          Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2021-08-26 03:37 -0700
  Re: Using CSS clamp retrospectively Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2021-09-01 05:10 +0200

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