Hi, Louis Desjardins schrieb: >> Gregory Pittman wrote: >> >>> I would think that points came about as part of an effort to have a >>> unit small enough to measure useful font sizes in whole numbers. >> >> >> It's always good to be able to respond to your own emails with better >> information. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_unit -- >> some tidbits follow. >> >> Well, Louis Desjardins will be interested to learn that the whole >> concept and execution of points in typography is quite French -- >> Fran?ois-Ambroise Didot came up with this in about 1783 as a >> modification of an idea by Pierre Simon Fournier. Didot's >> modification based the measurement on the standard French Royal inch, >> or pouce (Fournier was a little less precise). >> >> The American Point System came about in 1886, but was based on the >> original idea of Fournier -- 1/6 of an inch (American) is a pica, 1/12 >> of a pica is a point. Or at least conceptually. Then, as now, Big >> Business will have its say, and some influential type foundries had >> their own ideas and therefore it was decided that 83 picas = 35 mm >> (how do you like the math of that?). > > > Delightful. > > The part I like most, I think, is: "it was decided"... > > Louis > I think that Scribus has to calculate all in pt (1/72 inch) and convert the result into the dipslay unit. This is what happen and is, for my feeling OK.
Jean-Jacques
