[sdiy] typographic measurements [WAS: Metric vs imperial, was: My new Moog 960 sequencer clone module project.. slowly but surely ..]

[mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2020, Olav Martin Kvern wrote:
> For the most part, that's true--now. I was a typesetter before the "desktop
> publishing" fad came along, and our points were 0.013837 inch, or around 72.27
> points per inch.

TeX still uses this definition of the point.

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Matthew Skala
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