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- From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: TeX and "Point" definition.
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 17:23:24 GMT
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- In article <4097@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris
- Lewis) writes:
- >Could someone tell me what TeX think a point is? At least, as far as PK
- >fonts are concerned...
- TeX considers a `point', pt, to be 1/72.27 of an inch. This is
- apparently (according to Knuth), not exactly correct (in fact, there has
- been some difference of opinion over the centuries about exactly what a
- point was), but close enough. Because so many people consider a point to
- be exactly 1/72nd of an inch, TeX provides another unit, the `big
- point', bp, which is exactly 1/72 of an inch.
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