TABs (was: Waffling between Python and Ruby)

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 20-Jun-00 Michael Hudson wrote:
 >  Mikael Olofsson <mikael at isy.liu.se> writes:
 > > Erm, isn't a pt as in 10 pt font the typographic unit 1/72 inch?
 >  
 >  Well, sort of; the thing is the software doesn't know how big your
 >  monitor is physically, so can't work out what's it's own dpi is.
 >  You'd think a task as simple as "draw something this size" would be
 >  pretty simple after fifty years of computing, but you'd be wrong...

I've always thought that a pt is 1/72 inch, as I wrote before, and that
a pixel width or height is referred to as a px. I sounds like we are 
talking about the latter. I guess there is an overall confusion about 
the two measures.

FWIW, both units are used in W3Cs CSS level 1 and 2 recommendations.
However, they give their own definition of px, using arm lengths and 
angles.

/Mikael

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