Re: paper-defaults-init.ly questions

[David Kastrup]

Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:

> On 12/4/10 4:51 PM, "David Kastrup" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Carl Sorensen <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Actually, I'm not sure that being exact matters, since a hundredth of
>>> a point is much lower than the resolution of my printer.
>> 
>> It matters once you can't figure out why one system less than expected
>> is placed on the page, even though you calculated everything perfectly
>> well.
>
> Do you have an example that demonstrates this?

Not at hand.  But stuff like that happens often enough in typesetting (I
know that it is fun in TeX): you have, say, blocks of 0.4in height on
8in, and get surprised that just 19 of them fit.

-- 
David Kastrup