| Notation |
Meaning |
| in |
inches |
| cm |
centimetres |
| mm |
millimetres |
| pt |
Printing industry point; originally there was 72pt to a French inch which was larger than an English inch! Postscript and CSS define 1pt=1/72in |
| pc |
picas; 1pc=12pt |
These should all be the same size:
0.25in para,
0.635cm text,
6.35mm text,
18pt text,
1.5pc text
in side
0.25in para,
0.635cm text,
6.35mm text,
18pt text,
1.5pc text
in side
0.25in para,
0.635cm text,
6.35mm text,
18pt text,
1.5pc text
in side
Firefox, Chrome and Safari good, older Opera and IE versions have inches varying by the font!
All three have the text size the same for other absolute values in the para
