Tino Schwarze wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 12:32:47PM -0600, F.Harr at softhome.net wrote: > >> The only place that USES picas and points is the U.S. and Brittain. Who >> cares? France uses Ciceros and Dideros and everywhere ells uses >> milimeters. Who cares? > > Maybe the developer who needs to implement lots of special cases because > he/she cannot rely on localization functions any more?!
Maybe the user is a veteran in layout and publishing, with lots of interesting experience under the belt, but has still not gone metric ? > >>>> Thanks all. If it's not too late to say, I prefere a comma, rather than >>>> a "p", but it's only a minor "point". >>>> >>> Comma is used as a decimal point in some locales and as a 1000 separator in >>> others. >>> IMO it's a bad choice to give it the pica/point meaning. >>> >>> /Andreas > > Tino. > Sveinn ? Felli
