TABs (was: Waffling between Python and Ruby)

Tue Jun 20 04:19:06 EDT 2000

At 8:52 AM +0200 20-06-2000, Mikael Olofsson wrote:
>On 20-Jun-00 Just van Rossum wrote:
> >  (Due to historic narrowmindedness, a point is the same as a pixel under
> >  MacOS, no matter what physical resolution the display has; I believe
> >  Windows has (had?) the same problem, except that a pixel is 72/96th
> >  points...)
>
>Erm, isn't a pt as in 10 pt font the typographic unit 1/72 inch?

That's what it indeed should be. But the dumb thing is that the logical
resolution of MacOS display devices is hard-wired to 72dpi... (Just like
Windows' logical resolution is hard-wired to 96dpi. Does anyone know if
Win2000 fixes this?)

Just