- From: John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:21:46 -0500
- To: Asmus Freytag <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>
- Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper@crissov.de>, "public-i18n-cjk@w3.org" <public-i18n-cjk@w3.org>
Asmus Freytag scripsit:
> The Q would be about 3/4 pts. (Difference is about 5%). If I have an
> implementation that works its math in quarter points (smallest unit that
> I've come across in run-of-the-mill software) then that could be your
> error. Is that something that real implementations do, or do they work
> with much higher internal precision?
TeX's internal unit is the scaled point, which is 1/65536 of a TeX point.
TeX points are exactly 1/72.27 inches, where an inch is exactly 25.4 mm.
They are a very close approximation to the traditional American point,
and are slightly smaller than PostScript points, which are 1/72 inches.
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