Re: [jlreq] Quarter Millimeter

On 12/1/2011 2:45 AM, Christoph Päper wrote:
> Asmus Freytag<asmusf@ix.netcom.com>:
>
>> do they work with much higher internal precision?
> I think the MS variant of ISO standard XML office document file formats uses EMU, i.e. “English metric unit”, the GCD of (72 to the inch) point and millimetre.

If I did the math correctly, that would be 9144.

1/9144 of an inch is 0.002777777 mm, and a Q corresponds to 90 EMU.

Cool,

A./

Received on Thursday, 1 December 2011 16:53:39 UTC