Hello Brion,
you wrote: ...
I can find no such option in Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Mac OS X. What operating system are you running?
Windows XP, sorry for being a bit autistic - I have no other OS with a gui running here and assumed Firefox would have the same features on every platform. But, am I completely wrong to assume that the majority of wikipedia users has got Windows running (which doesn't mean that there would be no good reasons to go elsewhere)?
Sounds like a bug in Firefox; a printing scaling feature ought to work regardless of which method was used to set font sizes ..
No, really, Firefix works just as designed and as specified. A fixed font size is _meant_ to render fixed, and: "Use of percentage values, or values in 'em's, leads to more robust and cascadable style sheets." ( http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-size-props )
And, have a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/monobook/main.css?41 .. and you fill not one font-size in 'pt', only percent, ems or 'small' etc.
// Bernd