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- Metric typographic units have been devised and proposed several times to overcome the various traditional point systems. After the French revolution of 1789 one popular proponent of a switch to metric was Didot, who had been able to standardise the continental European typographic measurement a few decades earlier. The conversion did not happen, though. The Didot point was metrically redefined as 1⁄2660 m (≈ 0.376 mm) in 1879 by Berthold. The advent and success of desktop publishing (DTP) software and word processors for office use, coming mostly from the non-metric United States, basically revoked this metrication process in typography. DTP commonly uses the PostScript point, which is defined as 1⁄72 of an inch (352.(7) μm). (en)
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- 250 (xsd:integer)
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- 0.25
- 0.375
- ≈ 0.00984 in (en)
- ≈ 0.0147 in (en)
- ≈ 0.0591 picas (en)
- ≈ 0.0886 picas (en)
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- Quart (en)
- Metric Didot Point (en)
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- inches (en)
- imperial/US units (en)
- typographic units (en)
- micrometers (en)
- millimeters (en)
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- Metric typographic units have been devised and proposed several times to overcome the various traditional point systems. After the French revolution of 1789 one popular proponent of a switch to metric was Didot, who had been able to standardise the continental European typographic measurement a few decades earlier. The conversion did not happen, though. The Didot point was metrically redefined as 1⁄2660 m (≈ 0.376 mm) in 1879 by Berthold. (en)
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- Metric typographic units (en)
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