Make .small in type.less use the @font-size-small variable?

[dminkovsky]

Right now, the misc .small mixin in type.less is hardwired to 85%. That same 85% of base appears in variables.less as @font-size-small. Would it makes sense to have .small in type.less reference @font-size-small instead of having its own value?

[mdo]

For now I'll punt on this as the default <small>/.small should use a percentage and not the computed value. We'll have to revisit this in v4 to make things a bit easier.

[thomaswelton]

@mdo / @cvrebert can we change this so that this value

bootstrap/less/type.less

Line 80 in 10e9fef

font-size: 85%;

Is computed by using the variables font-size-small and font-size-base while still using a percentage value?

At least that way we'd get results more like users may expect.
I just ran into this problem myself and was surprised the variable was not being used here and caused a bug with my font size.