>>>>> Jay Belanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (JB) wrote:

>JB> According to the data file for the units program, the printer's point
>JB> (the same as typographer's point?) is precisely 0.013837 inches, while
>JB> the TeX point is 1/72.27 inches = 0.013837000138... inches.  Then the
>JB> units program cheerfully ignores the difference.  Makes sense,
>JB> perhaps.

Apparently what they call printer's point is the same as TeX's point (which
doesn't surprise me), but it is a different thing than Postscript's point.

In mm:
Postscript: 0.0352777777778
TeX: 0.0351459803515
-- 
Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP 8DAE142BE17999C4]
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