Metric typographic units
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Metric typographic units
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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) softwa
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_typographic_units
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2004-10-07T21:28:41Z
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2024-09-09T14:57:56Z
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