Invisible schrieb:

> Well, by a series of experiments, I have discovered that the neither the 
> character width or character hight of Courier 10pt is actually 10pt. The 
> distance from the baseline to the capline is more like 5.5pt or 
> something, and the distance between characters appears to be exactly 6pt...

Yes, the "pt" in fonts is a rather arbitrary measurement. I guess in 
traditional typesetting it would refer to the height of the metal 
"block" from which the letters were cut, so even there it would be only 
indirectly related to the actual glyph dimensions.

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