что такое “pt”

[Reader]

подскажите, пожалуйста, что такое “pt” в

“Шрифт: Times New Roman, 16 pt для названия (прописные, п/ж, по центру”

[Drat]

пункты!!!

[tumanov]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)

point =
The desk-top publishing point (DTP point) is defined as 1/72 of the anglo-saxon compromise inch of 1959 (25.4 mm), it is approximately 0.0139 inch or 0.3528 mm. Twelve points make up a pica, and six picas make an inch.

The point is the standard unit for measuring font size and leading and other minute items on a printed page. This system was notably promoted by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the inventors of Adobe PostScript, and it is therefore it is sometimes also called PostScript point.

In metal type, the point size of the font described the size (height) of the metal body on which the typeface's characters were cast. In digital type, the body is now an imaginary design space, but is used as the basis from which the type is scaled (see em).

A measurement in picas is usually represented by placing a lower case p after the number, such as "10p" means "10 picas". Points are represented by placing the number of points after the p, such as 0p5 for "5 points," 6p2 for "6 picas and 2 points", or 1p1 for "13 points" which is converted to a mixed fraction of 1 pica and 1 point. (An alternate nomenclature is described in the pica article.)

The TeX typesetting system predates PostScript slightly and uses a point of 1/72.27 inch or 0.3515 mm, commonly called the TeX point.

[Reader]

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