Multimarkdown CSS font-size not being respected on export - TextMate

16 Dec 2007


      I now use Textmate for all my drafting, and when I need to share a  
draft with someone I simply e-mail as plain text or export an RTF for  
better printing. I'm using Multimarkdown so that I can link to  
established style sheets hosted on my personal website.
I've tweaked the "Convert to RTF" command in the MMD bundle to export  
to Nisus Writer Express -- I'm hoping to develop a script or command  
which will automatically create an appropriate header (based on some  
variable, I'm not sure yet) -- but I was having the same problem in  
TextEdit.
What's that problem? Even though I've got "font-size: 12pt;"  
literally littered everywhere in the CSS file (see below), I'm seeing  
16pt type either on direct export or if I preview in Textmate's built- 
in browser and then copy and paste out to an RTF editor.
The CSS involved is like this:
@page
    {
    size:  auto;
    margin:  1in 1.5in 1in 1.5in;
    orphans:  2;
    widows:  2;
    }
body
    {
    font-family:  "Gentium Basic";
    orphans:  2;
    widows:  2;
    font-size: 12pt;
    }
h1
    {
    letter-spacing: 2pt;
    font-weight:  bold;
    font-variant:  uppercase;
    margin-top:  4em;
    page-break-after: avoid;
    font-size: 12pt;
    }
etc.
What am I doing wrong?