[squeak-dev] Cuis font sizes

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Mon Aug 31 08:11:14 UTC 2009


On 31.08.2009, at 08:28, Tobias Pape wrote:

>
> Am 2009-08-31 um 02:35 schrieb David T. Lewis:
>
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 10:12:06PM +0200, Nicolas Cellier wrote:
> […]
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>
> Didn’t know you were hot-metal typesetters ;)
> But, no kidding, an inch is both equal 72.27 _and_
> equal 72 Point.
>  Refer to the already mentioned Wikipedia article;
> TeX and hot-metal- (i.e. traditional) typesetting, are
> using a 72.27 pt = 1 in relation, whereas PostScript
> is using the rounded 72 pt = 1 in. The WP article
> states, that the latter is the now more common def-
> inition of a Point.
>  By the way, which system is Squeak (Freetype?)
> using?


The digital typography one, i.e., 72.

- Bert -





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