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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Definition of Point
Summary: 1 didot point = 1238 point !?!? Surely Not!
Message-ID: <219@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 14 Oct 88 03:25:12 GMT
References: <2610015@hpsal2.HP.COM> <142@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <142@ur-cc.UUCP> rbr4@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Roland Roberts) writes:
 >To further add to the plethora of responses, the following are from the
 >TeXbook, p57.
 >
 >	1 pica = 12 point
 >	1 inch = 72.27 point
 >	1 didot point = 1238 point   <------+
 >	1 cicero = 12 didot point           |
 >	                                    |
	                                    |
Surely you forgot a decimal point here and a didot point is 1.238 pica points!
That would be a very unwieldy unit of measurement, even for those continental
Europeans! :-)
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