Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jaap+ From: jaap+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jaap Akkerhuis) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Definition of Point Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 88 14:50:02 GMT References: <2610015@hpsal2.HP.COM> <142@ur-cc.UUCP>, <219@dcs.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 8 In-Reply-To: <219@dcs.UUCP> Bear in mind that all these nifty numbers hardly make any sense at all in the real world. I know of at least two models of a typesetter from the same manufacturer which have an apparently a different size for a point. This is not a big deal, since it is marginal. However, it starts to become annoying when you want to combine output of both versions in one document. The linelength will vary enough to be noticable. jaap