On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:12:06PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
2009/8/29 David T. Lewis lewis@mail.msen.com:
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:18:18PM -0300, Juan Vuletich wrote:
I never found a clear specification of the meaning of ?'12 point', and I'm totally for making the fonts behave properly.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
72 points = 1 inch
I thought it was 72.27
Nicolas,
You are absolutely right. The discrepancy is apparently due to my having less than four significant figures worth of linear precision on my computer screen ;-)
Thanks for the correction, also noted in Subbu's excellent reply earlier today.
Dave