Brian, the definitions you've pulled are from the legal industry ;-)
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>wrote: At 12:39 07/08/2012 -0700, Andrew Brager wrote: > >> Yet, it fails to answer my original question which is where do the words >> "register true" come from, and to extend and clarify the question - how did >> register true come to mean "aligning baselines"? >> > > I think that bit's fairly easy. According to the dictionary, one sense of > "register" as a noun is "a state of proper alignment" and as a verb "to > adjust so as to be properly aligned" or "to be in proper alignment". And > "true" similarly can mean as an adjective "accurately placed", and as an > adverb "precisely" or "exactly". So "register true" can mean "align > exactly" or "precise alignment". (There's nothing about baselines - but > we're talking about vertical alignment, so what else could you align?) > > Brian Barker > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
