On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 09:11 +0100, Noel Power wrote: > On 04/10/12 20:52, Markus Mohrhard wrote: > > Looks good to me. Pushed to 3-6 with my sign-off. The only thing that > > bothered me a bit is the 20.0 as magic number. > 20.0 is the conversion factor for twips to points ( or vice-versa )
TWIP == TWentyInPoint where we (now universally after a few very surprising confused TeX Point use cases in sc which are now gone I think) take a Point as a Postscript Point of 1/72 of an Inch (like MSOffice does and writer/vcl always did so give 1440 TWIPs per inch. Another awesome unit is the EMU, English Metric Unit, which is a bit of a head-scratcher of a name initially, but "English" is what Americans call the measurement system the UK, etc. now calls "Imperial", inches, feet, onions and what not. So an EMU is a convenient unified unit which can record both inches and cm in round numbers sufficient large and evenly divisible enough to continue to represent fairly high resolution subdivisions of inch/cm in whole numbers of EMU. 36000 EMUs per cm and 91440 EMUs per inch. C. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
