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  2. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Microsoft Word, for instance, suggests every even size between 8 and 28 points and, additionally, 9, 11, 36, 48 and 72 points, i.e. the larger sizes equal 3, 4 and 6 picas. While most software nowadays defaults to DTP points, many allow specifying font size in other units of measure (e.g., inches, millimeters, pixels), especially code-based ...

  3. Pica (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) defined by the World Wide Web Consortium use pc as the abbreviation for pica (1 ⁄ 6 of an inch), and pt for point (1 ⁄ 72 of an inch). [3] The pica is also used in measuring the font capacity and is applied in the process of copyfitting. [4] The font length is measured there by the number of characters per pica ...

  4. Traditional point-size names - Wikipedia

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    "number") is added to the end of the size name to clarify the meaning. Note that the Chinese font sizes use American points; the Continental systems traditionally used the Fournier or Didot points. The Fournier points, being smaller than Didot's, were associated with the names of the Didot type closest in size rather than identical in number of ...

  5. ISO 2145 - Wikipedia

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    All standard LaTeX document classes generate chapter, section, subsection, figure, table, etc. numbers as defined by ISO 2145.; As of 2003, all Microsoft Word versions were by default set up to add a full stop after the final section number.

  6. Office Open XML file formats - Wikipedia

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    A basic package contains an XML file called [Content_Types].xml at the root, along with three directories: _rels, docProps, and a directory specific for the document type (for example, in a .docx word processing package, there would be a word directory). The word directory contains the document.xml file which is the core content of the document.

  7. Pitch (typewriter) - Wikipedia

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    Pitch is the number of letters, numbers and spaces in one inch (25.4 mm) of running text, that is, characters per inch (abbreviated cpi), measured horizontally. [1] [2] The pitch was most often used as a measurement of the size of typewriter fonts as well as those of impact printers used with computers.

  8. Doc (computing) - Wikipedia

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    .doc (an abbreviation of "document") is a filename extension used for word processing documents stored on Microsoft's proprietary Microsoft Word Binary File Format; it was the primary format for Microsoft Word until the 2007 version replaced it with Office Open XML.docx files. [4] Microsoft has used the extension since 1983.

  9. Agate (typography) - Wikipedia

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    It is 5.5 typographical points, or about 1 ⁄ 13 inch (1.94 mm). It can refer either to the height of a line of type or to a font that is 5.5 points. An agate font is commonly used to display statistical data or legal notices in newspapers. It is considered to be the smallest point size that can be printed on newsprint and remain legible.