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Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [TUHS] Reconstructed and newly set UNIX Manual X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 2018-10-27 10:07 a.m., Milo Velimirovic wrote: > > >> On Oct 27, 2018, at 7:28 AM, Angelo Papenhoff 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