From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/67072 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Doherty Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: What are the best fonts to use Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:02:19 +0000 Message-ID: <56B13C41-81AB-4456-9A25-7ED75B0231CC@ucd.ie> References: <20110315003147.GC30375@beigebox> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0757815188==" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300284161 5725 80.91.229.12 (16 Mar 2011 14:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:02:41 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Mar 16 15:02:32 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzrIz-0004FF-AY for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1DCCAB2E; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:28 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id FcBdy7kxj2CJ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A654CAB1F; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB6CCAB1F for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:24 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ejeZs+oC6mzq for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57096CAAF0 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from dakota.ucd.ie (mail3.ucd.ie [193.1.169.34]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p2GE2LsA008810 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:02:22 +0100 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.dakota.ucd.ie by dakota.ucd.ie (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) id <0LI500H01LDWDT00@dakota.ucd.ie> (original mail from charlie.doherty@ucd.ie) for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:02:21 +0000 (GMT) Original-Received: from dhcp-892b90a0.ucd.ie ([137.43.144.160]) by dakota.ucd.ie (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0LI5008YXLNWYZJ0@dakota.ucd.ie> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:02:20 +0000 (GMT) In-reply-to: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=193.1.169.34; country=IE; region=07; city=Dublin; latitude=53.3331; longitude=-6.2489; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=53.3331,-6.2489&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0eEjO2lwU - 4a13e561566d - 20110316 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:67072 Archived-At: --===============0757815188== Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_6QcBkwbo+/nwLvglySOPqw)" --Boundary_(ID_6QcBkwbo+/nwLvglySOPqw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thank you Hraban, It is falling into place now. Charlie On 16 Mar 2011, at 13:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > But use "bp" instead of "pt" - TeX's point is smaller than a PostScript point, we had that recently... > see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography) --Boundary_(ID_6QcBkwbo+/nwLvglySOPqw) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Thank you Hrab= an,

It is falling into place now.

Charlie
On 16 Mar 2011, at 13:18, Henning Hraba= n Ramm wrote:

But use "bp" instead of "pt= " - TeX's point is smaller than a PostScript point, we had that recen= tly...
see also = http://en= .wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)

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