Re: Face header

[Graham . Asher_at_symbian . com]

This is wrong.

1. The standard point, established by international agreement well over 100
years ago, as used by Knuth and by type foundries everywhere is 1/72.27
inch or 0.351459mm (number of centimetres to an inch = 2.54, and 2.54 /
72.27 = 0.351459). The value below is incorrect.

The 'anglo-saxon point' and 'IN point' are unknown to typesetting practise.
Are they values used before standardisation in the 19th century, perhaps?

Graham Asher




                                                                                
                                    
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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
     1 anglo-saxon point:     0.35135 mm
     1 IN point:         0.39877 mm
     1 knuth point:      0.34928 mm
     1 adobe point:      0.35278 mm

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