>>>> "Joel" == Joel Stanley
<jstanley(a)cs.uiuc.edu> writes: 
    Joel> And it looks like the version of w3 and url in the cvs
    Joel> repository are significantly newer than the w3 I have
    Joel> installed (for my currently installed, version, M-x
    Joel> w3-version yields "WWW 4.0pre.45, URL p4.0pre.46, MM 1.96").
    Joel> Could this be the problem?
No.  As you note, the newer versions haven't been ported yet.  The w3
maintainer is out to work :-P and has been for awhile, the ones you
point to are not his AFAIK but third party efforts.
    Joel> Signaling: (wrong-type-argument number-char-or-marker-p nil)
    Joel>   +(nil 12)
    Joel>   font-spatial-to-canonical("+12pt")
Don't use math operators and units in the same size spec.
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