>> From: David >> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 12:51 PM >> >> Well, nobody wants to steel the picas and points and ciceros or >> whatevers from you. But internally the program should use the metric >> system, just because it's the better and more commonly used one. I think >> it makes more sense to have exact mm than it makes to have exact pts, >> because millimeters are lot easier to do calculations with. Also this >> allows you to have the _exact_ page sizes for ISO pages.
Actually, I'd suggest that scribus do all internal calculations in angstroms. A millimeter is exactly 10,000,000 angstroms and an inch is exactly 254,000,000 angstroms and a point is exactly 3,527,777.78 ... Oh, never mind. -- Henry
