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Article #1521Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own
From: Bill Venables
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 22:42
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1990 22:42
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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. -- Bill Venables, Dept. Statistics, | Email: wvenable@spam.ua.oz.au Univ. of Adelaide, South Australia. | Phone: +61 8 228 5418
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au!spam!wvenable From: wvenable@spam.ua.oz (Bill Venables) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: ruler.ps - an inch/point ruler of your very own Message-ID: <246@spam.ua.oz> Date: 15 Jan 90 22:42:58 GMT References: <21772@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1990Jan14.180821.18711@trigraph.uucp> <17662@rpp386.cactus.org> Reply-To: wvenable@spam.oz.au (Bill Venables) Organization: Statistics, Pure and Applied Maths, University of Adelaide Lines: 15