Patrick O'Callaghan: > IIRC it used to be 72.72 (my first job was working on an early > typesetting system at Cambridge University Press :-) However > according to Wikipedia a point is now officially 1/72 of an > "international inch": > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography) I stayed with "approx" since it never was specific (different companies had differing point sizes), and I wouldn't be surprised if different companies (e.g. printing houses), still have their own ideas about the thing. ;-) And then you have the issue of different inches, too. And if you printed out the built-in test pages of different printers, I'm sure you'll find that 12 point Times on one printer is not identical to 12 point Times on another. It certainly was when I've done that in the past. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. - Mwuu haha haaaaa haaaa, soon the world will be mine! - Sir, you've got to take your finger off the intercom button. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
