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Re: Face header
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Antoine Leca |
Subject: |
Re: Face header |
Date: |
Fri, 12 May 2000 12:04:34 +0200 |
Bertrand Petit wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 11, 2000 at 10:59:22AM -0700, Angus Duggan wrote:
> > Historically, the point has taken different values in different times and
> > places. What you are describing is Don Knuth's view of the point.
>
> Here is a brief summary of the point in chronological order:
>
> 1 didot point: 0.3759 mm
> 1 metric point: 0.4 mm
Never been used. But dated 1795 ± 5 years.
> 1 anglo-saxon point: 0.35135 mm
I cannot understand this order: you are in fact saying that
the Anglo-Saxons (for example, Baskerville) were using the didot
point before 1790?
My take on this is that there were points in use in England
that predates the "official" didot point. I doubt there were
only *one* "anglo-saxon" point, though.
That's said, nowadays and in the specific field of computer typography,
an inch is 25.4 mm and there are 72 points in an inch. TeX is outside
the field, since I am not aware that David is developing a plug-in
for Metafont ;-).
Antoine
Re: Face header, Graham . Asher_at_symbian . com, 2000/05/11
Re: Face header, Graham . Asher_at_symbian . com, 2000/05/12