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Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
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Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion


  • Subject: Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:49:07 -0300

At 9:16 PM -0700 9/14/04, Paul Berkowitz wrote:
> Shouldn't that be the other way around? X points should look the same on
either screen, but X pixels is always going to look smaller at 96dpi.

No. Pixels seem to be pixels (the same physical size) on all screens.

No. Pixels are different sizes, depending on the screen. And the old 72, 96 business between Mac and PC is now nearly meaningless. Lately it's more likely to mean how an "inch of page" scales to the screen, not how many pixels an inch of screen holds. My LCD has more than 90 pixels per inch of screen, and how an inch of document scales to the pixels is nearly meaningless as you can alter the magnification arbitrarily. Incidentally, that 72 pixels per inch was no accident. That is the number of point per inch in print media. It made a one point line exactly 1 pixel wide on screen.



Points - which are already different sizes per font

Not true. If you have two type faces that are, for example, 12 point, then they share a common dimension. The body block for the type is the same height (it's the height of the face of the metal block of type that would have been used in former times to set the type for printing). Its dimension is the distance from the top of the highest ascender of any glyph in the typeface to the bottom of the lowest ascender of any glyph in the typeface. Visually, different type faces may look like they are different sizes when they are at the same point size, but that's because they don't have the same x-height, and the relative height of ascenders and descenders to the height of the lower case x is different, as may be the aspect ratio, stroke weight, and other things that affect the optical size of the font. And to clarify another oft misunderstood term, Helvetica is not a font. Helvetica 6 point bold is a font. Helvetica is a typeface. When you specify a font, technically it is supposed to denote a particular size and style of a typeface. This is also from typography when a "font" was a the metal type in a box that was of a particular typeface, size, and style.



are seen as larger on Windows than on the Mac.

Points are for print media (in round numbers, 72 per inch), and as seen on the monitor, they relate to the way the text is sized according to the dimensions of the document page (look at the rulers), not how it's displayed (which can be altered through magnification/zoom level and screen pixel density).


When it comes to HTML, all bets are off. It's a structural markup, not a typographical one.

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