Re: [TUHS] Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual

[Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>]

On 2018-10-27 10:07 a.m., Milo Velimirovic wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Oct 27, 2018, at 7:28 AM, Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu> wrote:
>>
>> On 27/10/18, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>>>> Now it could be that v7 troff is perfectly capable of generating the
>>>> manual just like older troff would have.
>>>
>>> On taking over editorship for v7, I added some macros to the -man
>>> package. I don't specifically recall making any incompatible
>>> changes. If there were any, they'd most likely show up in
>>> the title and synopsis and should be fixable by a minor tweak
>>> to -man. I'm quite confident that there would be no problems
>>> with troff proper.
>>
>> I didn't mean the macros. They are not problematic at all.
>> It's the idea how much a point is compared to an inch that has
>> changed over time i think.
>>
>> aap
> 
> From my experience in the world of prepress 723pts == 10in.
> 
> Then Adobe unleashed PostScript on us and redefined the point
> so that 72pt == 1in.
> 
> I’m unaware of any other definitions of a point.
> 
> -Milo
> 


 Wikipedia lists historical definitions, but the only definitions I've
used myself are TeX's and PostScript's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)

--Toby