Craig Bradney wrote: >On Friday 04 February 2005 17:31, Craig Bradney wrote: > > >>On Friday 04 February 2005 16:17, Pierre Abbat wrote: >> >> >>>On Friday 04 February 2005 10:04, Plinnell wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Friday 04 February 2005 14:31, Craig Bradney wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Yes but most professionals DTP people I've met actually THINK and >>>>>WORK in pts. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Correct. >>>> >>>>Some in picas and ciceros too ;-) >>>> >>>> >>>We should make the program usable by people who aren't professional DTP >>>people and know only the meter and its power of 10 multiples as units of >>>length. See http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/metric-typo/ for more details. >>> >>> >>You already can.. I used Scribus in mm myself. Change the default unit! The >>fact that there is a conversion issue is a TOTALLY different issue. >> >> > >Sorry.. USE.. all the time.. that makes 10 issues of, on average, a 28 page >magazine, plus business cards, pocket calendars, birthday cards, etc etc.. >ALL in MM.. > >Craig > >
It seems to me that unless you can get standard font sizes changed to mm, then it makes little sense to have everything else internally in mm. I would think that points came about as part of an effort to have a unit small enough to measure useful font sizes in whole numbers. I like using Scribus with either pts or mm for the same reason -- you get to work with whole numbers more often. Greg
