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From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz (Bill Venables)
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Subject: Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own
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Date: 15 Jan 90 22:42:58 GMT
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In article <17662@rpp386.cactus.org> woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) writes:
: In article <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp>, bruce@trigraph.uucp (Bruce Freeman) writes:
:> The great thing about points is that there are so many of them to the inch.
:> PostScript has decided that there are exactly 72 to the inch but the industry
:> standard is generally that there are 72.3 points to the inch. As a typesetting
: Yup, For whatever reason, Adobe definitly decided to thumb it's nose at
: the very industry that it was/is trying to bring into the 20th centry.

	TeX has always allowed "points" (72.3 to the inch) and "big points"
	(72 to the inch) and I am pretty certain this predates Adobe's use
	of its (big) points.  I suspect it has more to do with the usual
	American/European hiatus on units, but I am not sure.
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