From: Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Screen document design
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:32:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2C24D94B-045F-45D3-AFB2-6CD69A748FFB@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110224113410.3245683a@glyph>
Am 2011-02-24 um 11:34 schrieb Marco:
> On 2011-02-24 Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for taking the trouble for what was really simple, but seems
>> undocumented (?)
>
> Some other units:
> mm Millimetres
> cm Centimetres
> in Inches
> em em width, depends on the font
> ex ex height, depends on the font
> pc Picas (1pc = 12pt)
> pt Points (1in = 72.27pt)
There’s also bp (big points). We have the difference between TeX
points (pt) and PostScript points (bp) in ConTeXt like in every other
TeX:
1 pt = 1/72,27 in = 0,3515 mm (traditional American printer’s point)
1 bp = 1/72 in = 0,3528 mm (after the Anglo-Saxon compromise inch of
1959 = 25.4 mm)
(1 "Didot" point, traditionally used in Europe, was 0,376 mm)
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-24 9:40 Ian Lawrence
2011-02-24 9:47 ` luigi scarso
2011-02-24 10:14 ` Ian Lawrence
2011-02-24 10:34 ` Marco
2011-02-24 13:32 ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2011-03-01 8:29 ` Ian Lawrence
2011-03-01 8:52 ` luigi scarso
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