Tadziu Hoffmann wrote in <20201108120208.gd2...@usm.uni-muenchen.de>: | |> When you say points are '(about 1/72")', it probably |> doesn't hurt to go the extra mile (!) in precision and |> say '(1/72.27")'. It's shorter (no need for 'about') |> and more correct. | |Historically, the size of the point varied from region |to region. TeX uses 1/72.27 inches for its point, but |as far as I know, groff uses the Postscript point, |which is 1/72 inches exactly.
As documented in groff.7. Floating-point is evil. I dream of a roff codebase which does not use it. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
