Re: Recreating length-specs

[Richard Light <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In message <ud8ay9pwm.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Toby Speight
<Toby.Speight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>RtfFOTBuilder.cxx contains the following, which implies that the unit
>is 0.05pt.
>
>RtfFOTBuilder> // Use a line-spacing of 12pt for the header and footer
>RtfFOTBuilder> // and assume 2.5pt of it occur after the baseline.
>
>RtfFOTBuilder> const int hfPreSpace = 190;
>RtfFOTBuilder> const int hfPostSpace = 50;

>So
>
> (define *dsssl-unit-length* 0.05pt)

Toby,

Many thanks for sorting out the problem.  It turns out, experimentally,
that the correct value is:

(define *dsssl-unit-length* 0.001pt)

Richard.

Richard Light
SGML/XML and Museum Information Consultancy
richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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