URL: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?67693>
Summary: e.tmac: "point size" is not a synonym for "type
size"
Group: GNU roff
Submitter: bjarniig
Submitted: Tue 11 Nov 2025 07:29:10 PM UTC
Category: Macro package me
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Lint
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Date: Tue 11 Nov 2025 07:29:10 PM UTC By: Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig>
Subject: e.tmac: "point size" is not a synonym for "type size"
"Point size" (size of a point (an unit of measurement)) depends on the
measurement system.
So different sizes of a point exist, like
1) big point
2) Didot point
3) printer's point (American/English point).
See item "Point (typography)" in the Wikipedia.
-.-
From "tmac/e.tmac":
.de sz \" *** set point size and vertical spacing
.vs \\n(.sp*\\n(tvu/100u \" default vs at pointsize + 20%
. nr fp 8 \" footnote pointsize
.nr tp 10 \" title point size
.nr pp 10 \" normal text point size
.nr sp 10 \" section title pointsize
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