From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
Subject: Re: Amendments in calc-units.el
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:05:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wzwtk9dgha.fsf@ordesa.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d5m28ptg.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (Jay Belanger's message of "Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:42:35 -0500")
>>>>> Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> (JB) wrote:
>JB> According to the data file for the units program, the printer's point
>JB> (the same as typographer's point?) is precisely 0.013837 inches, while
>JB> the TeX point is 1/72.27 inches = 0.013837000138... inches. Then the
>JB> units program cheerfully ignores the difference. Makes sense,
>JB> perhaps.
Apparently what they call printer's point is the same as TeX's point (which
doesn't surprise me), but it is a different thing than Postscript's point.
In mm:
Postscript: 0.0352777777778
TeX: 0.0351459803515
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Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-19 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-15 17:23 Amendments in calc-units.el Torsten Bronger
2005-10-15 19:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-16 8:45 ` Torsten Bronger
2005-10-17 3:12 ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-17 6:33 ` James Cloos
2005-10-17 7:12 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-18 8:04 ` Juri Linkov
2005-10-16 1:56 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-16 7:26 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-18 19:41 ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-18 21:33 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-18 21:42 ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-18 22:01 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-19 9:05 ` Piet van Oostrum [this message]
2005-10-19 21:01 ` Piet van Oostrum
2005-10-18 21:39 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-18 22:04 ` Miles Bader
2005-10-18 22:15 ` David Kastrup
2005-10-19 14:01 ` Jay Belanger
2005-10-19 20:29 ` Jay Belanger
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