[scribus] Picas and Points

[Hedley Finger]

John:

> 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.

Just for interest, FrameMaker allows the same, including decimals of a 
point -- I have never bothered to find out what the limit is.

Regards,
Hedley


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