I use LaTeX a lot and it accepts many units on the fly. One can set the size of bounding boxes in millimeters, even portions of a mililimeter --- 35.7mm, for example. (The syntax requires that no space be used between the number and the unit symbol.) Now, as to whether it rounds those to integer values in points when generating postscript files, I have no idea.
Jim On Saturday 19 November 2005 08:36, Pierre Abbat wrote: > On Saturday 19 November 2005 04:50, Martin Vlietstra wrote: > > Printing industry slowly metricating? > > > > I don't know about the US, but in the UK the printing industry was one of > > the first industries to be metricated. The stationery merchants and > > office furniture merchants loved it - they could reduce the number of > > stock lines dramatically when quarto and foolscap lines of stationery > > were replaced with A4 lines of stationery (it halved the number of stock > > lines that they carried with no real reduction in customer choice). > > Does the software you tested allow you to set type size in millimeters? If > you set the paper size to A4 or B4, are the dimensions rounded to points, > rounded to millimeters, or irrational? > > PostScript still expresses all dimensions in points. You can set the scale > to millimeters, but that has to be done at the top of each page (preface > doesn't work), and the BoundingBox must be an integral number of points. > > phma -- James R. Frysinger Lifetime Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist Senior Member, IEEE http://www.cofc.edu/~frysingj [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: Physics Lab Manager, Lecturer Dept. of Physics and Astronomy University/College of Charleston 66 George Street Charleston, SC 29424 843.953.7644 (phone) 843.953.4824 (FAX) Home: 10 Captiva Row Charleston, SC 29407 843.225.0805
