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<refentry id="nominal.image.width">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>nominal.image.width</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo role="type">length</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>nominal.image.width</refname>
<refpurpose>The nominal image width</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>

<refsynopsisdiv>
<src:fragment id='nominal.image.width.frag'>
<xsl:param name="nominal.image.width" select="6 * $pixels.per.inch"/>
</src:fragment>
</refsynopsisdiv>

<refsect1><title>Description</title>

<para>Graphic widths expressed as a percentage are problematic. In the
following discussion, we speak of width and contentwidth, but
the same issues apply to depth and contentdepth.</para>

<para>A width of 50% means "half of the available space for the image."
That's fine. But note that in HTML, this is a dynamic property and
the image size will vary if the browser window is resized.</para>

<para>A contentwidth of 50% means "half of the actual image width".
But what does that mean if the stylesheets cannot assess the image's
actual size? Treating this as a width of 50% is one possibility, but
it produces behavior (dynamic scaling) that seems entirely out of
character with the meaning.</para>

<para>Instead, the stylesheets define a
<parameter>nominal.image.width</parameter> and convert percentages to
actual values based on that nominal size.</para>

</refsect1>
</refentry>