>> 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.

Well, the glyph will be smaller than the metal block to allow some 
whitespace around the glyph. But you'd think 10pt would be either the 
width or the hieght of the block... Apparently it is neither.

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