Can Frame's default color definitions be changed?

[Matt Sullivan]

Yes, but that's a bit too much for a unit that has fallen into disuse ;)

In all seriousness, though, since it sounds like you'd know, what's a Cicero??

-Matt

On Oct 16, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:

> > What's a pica?
> > (kidding, kidding!!!!)
> > 
> > …and for those that don't know, 12 points=1 pica, 6 picas=1 inch
> 
> Umm, not exactly. (Or maybe "not necessarily" is more apt.) There are three definitions of the unit we know as a pica, and all of them are a little bit different.
>  
> The original definition is from 18th century France, where a pica was defined as 12 Didot points, which worked out to 12 x 0.376 mm = 4.512 mm.
>  
> The American definition was as a fraction of a foot: 0.013837 (or 1/72.27) to be exact. That works out to 4.2175 mm.
>  
> But the computer world likes rounder numbers, and the computer pica is 1/72 of a foot (specifically the metrically redefined foot of 1959), and that works out to 4.23333... mm. 
>  
> And if you're talking about those wonderful, archaic devices known as typewriters, pica refers to a type size that is nominally 12 points tall and about 7.2 points wide, resulting in 10 characters to the horizontal inch. 
>  
> -Fred Ridder

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