🚀 go-pugleaf

The discussion about the size of the point seems to pop up every couple
of points. And yes, there is an official size defined by certain
standard committees, which of course mobody cares about for obvious
reasons as stated by Amanda. Speculations why Adobe choose 72
points/inch and the relation to floating point, phases of the moon etc.
are of course just speculations.

Excerpts from netnews.comp.lang.postscript: 15-Jan-90 Re: ruler.ps - an
inch/poin.. Amanda Walker@mermaid.in (1282)

> It's actually even worse, especially if you take European conventions
> into account.


European conventions. Ha! Tell me about Europe. There are no such things
as European conventions. There are a couple of different systems in use,
what is in use in the U.S, is known as the Pica point system elsewhere
in the world. Then of course there is the Didot, there are the
augustijns etc. Anyway, officially, there is no need to use these old
names which doesn't have any legel meaning, one should use the metric
system!

	jaap