[scribus] Picas and Points

[John Culleton]

On Monday 28 July 2008 11:16:01 am Gregory Pittman wrote:
> F.Harr at softhome.net wrote:
> > No, I'm just anti-metric.  I don't have a problem with an
> > international standard, but we all believe in diversity, right? 
> > So I, being an American and interested in the American market, am
> > interested in American units, like picas and points
>
> hehe.
> Perhaps a little looking into the history of points is in order....
>
> Greg
>
Coming as I do from a TeX environment I should note that TeX allows 
inch measurements, points (traditional), big points (Adobe style), 
picas, metric, didot, cicero,  and a tiny measurement called a scaled 
point (sp) which are 65536 per inch.  So one system of mensuration 
should not exclude another.  Translation from one unit to another is 
a trivial execise for a programmer.  So we should if possible allow 
for a diversity of units, making the product truly universal. 



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John Culleton
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