OT: CSS details

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Barry Wiseman (Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:29:48 -0400):

[...]
>>>>>> Then you should know that point *actually* means "1/72.27 of an inch".
>>>>> According to one (mostly archaic*) standard of many, set by American
>>>>> type founders in 1886, based on their 11.952-inch printer's foot,
[...]
> ok, maybe *somebody* made it up. :-)  I confess to being an example of
> the decline of research skills in our modern internet era.  The fact
> remains, though: in my 10-12 years in the trade I never heard anyone
> suggest that a point was other than 1/72" exactly.

Well, according to Adobe:

     http://www.adobe.com/education/pdf/type_primer.pdf

         A traditional point is approximately 1/72 of an inch or .01384 inch.
         With the advent of desktoppublishing, the point became exactly 1/72
         of an inch.  Picas are another unit of measurement used for type;
         one pica equals 12 points and six picas equal an inch.

And from http://www.adobe.com/type/topics/glossary.html#point

     point
         A unit of measure in typography. There are approximately 72 points
         to the inch. A pica is 12 points.

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