Font Size in Open Office Docs on different platforms

[Donald Arseneau]

Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> writes:

> While the "size" of a font is, indeed, the entire size of the font,
> points used in typing, generally, were just used as a measure of how
> many would fit across a given width (10pt being the common one, 12pt
> being the more compact, usually).

You are mis-remembering the word "pitch" as "points".  A 10 pitch
font is 10 characters per inch, and is larger than a 12-pitch font
(12 cpi).

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Donald Arseneau                          asnd at triumf.ca