From: Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Screen document design
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:29:05 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTim9UeXBHvUqBegPNb3126BZ+PCfQyhLY5uf_2Xr@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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So many things I am only vaguely aware of....!
But I think that pixels are
a) undocumented
b) work....
And I'm pretty sure i'll put both (ignorant) feet in it in trying to add
something to the Wiki...
Greetings from the grey England..
Ian
On 24 February 2011 13:32, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net> wrote:
>
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-01 8:29 UTC|newest]
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
2011-03-01 8:29 ` Ian Lawrence [this message]
2011-03-01 8:52 ` luigi scarso
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