FYI: I rebased my branch to pick up the recent changes on nex3/master

http://github.com/chriseppstein/haml/commits/units

On Sep 21, 1:05 am, Chris Eppstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been working on porting the Yahoo UI fonts CSS to Sass and hit
> some snags. Their font system recommends setting fonts using percents
> instead of pixels or ems. You get some very nice rendering behavior if
> you use this approach, but it can be cumbersome to be calculating
> percents all the time so Sass can make using the YUI font system much
> simpler.
>
> Unfortunately, using arithmetic with units in sass is not very natural
> because one would expect 20px/10px to be the unitless number 2, but it
> is 2px instead.
>
> Additionally, I expect 50% * 30px to be 15px but it gives an error
> instead.
>
> So I made a patch cleans up the code around unit-based 
> numbers:http://github.com/chriseppstein/haml/commit/f750bc541c1a6d2e83d0ed82c...
>
> Unfortunately, the way the Sass engine works right now, you can't
> currently store a number with compound units into a variable (say as a
> conversion factor between two units) even with these changes.
>
> Would love to see this pulled into the master branch... so that I can
> start using it in Compass (http://github.com/chriseppstein/compass)
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