27 Oct
2018
27 Oct
'18
7:56 p.m.
On 2018-10-27 10:07 a.m., Milo Velimirovic wrote:
Wikipedia lists historical definitions, but the only definitions I've
used myself are TeX's and PostScript's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
--Toby
On Oct 27, 2018, at 7:28 AM, Angelo Papenhoff
<aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote:
On 27/10/18, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I didn't mean the macros. They are not problematic at all.
It's the idea how much a point is compared to an inch that has
changed over time i think.
aap
From my experience in the world of prepress 723pts == 10in.
Then Adobe unleashed PostScript on us and redefined the point
so that 72pt == 1in.
I’m unaware of any other definitions of a point.
-Milo
Now it
could be that v7 troff is perfectly capable of generating the
manual just like older troff would have.
On taking over editorship for v7, I added some macros to the -man
package. I don't specifically recall making any incompatible
changes. If there were any, they'd most likely show up in
the title and synopsis and should be fixable by a minor tweak
to -man. I'm quite confident that there would be no problems
with troff proper.