At 13:58 -0600 02/02/5, Carter, Baron wrote: >kyu >a metric unit of distance used in typography and graphic design. The kyu, >originally written Q, is equal to exactly 0.25 millimeter, about 0.71 point >[2], or about 14.173 twips. The spelling "kyu" seems to have been introduced >by the software company Macromedia.
I heard that the "Q" is sometimes used in Japan, also in Germany. It is a noticeable attempt to put some order in the jungle of typographic units, but with little chance to succeed, because of the American predominance in the field of printing software. Louis
