On October 18 2002, Geoffrey Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >At 4:46 PM +1000 17/10/02, Brian Ferguson wrote:
snipped, but agreed with. >>...Also, unless the user is a typesetter, points and picas are a bit >>hard to get one's mind correctly placed. > >Since all type comes in points, I think of the points between >paragraphs as a fraction of the type size. I would hate to abandon >that relationship for a different measure. > >Cheers >Geoff === Of course they do. I do use points when thinking of type size and spacing - leading? It is the use of points and picas for horizontal tabbing which I find elusive. If I recall, back in the days of the Apple IIe, the screen had 72 pixels per inch. Now was that fortuious or did someone really know what they were inventing. Took me a while to cotton on to there being 72 points/inch also. Is that 6 or 12 pica? Your mention of Styles is spot on, Geoff. Heading-styles with, say, 8 points-before and 4 points-after allows body text to have 0-points-before and 4-after. rgds brianF --------------------------------------------------- The Nisus Interactive List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/nisus-interactive%40nisus.com/ To unsubscribe from this list please send a message with "unsubscribe nisus-interactive" in the body of the email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
