Table column width question

[ptc-953926]

Does anyone know the entire set of column width units of measurement that can be used in an XHTML table model? I've exhausted the Arbortext help and most HTML references aren't much help either. I've come up with these:

None (same as pixels)
px (pixels)
pt (points)
pc (picas)
mm
cm
em
in

Any others?

Dave

[ebenton]

I don't know about XHTML, but Visio mentions ciceros and didots.

[ebenton]

There is also ex, which is the height of a lower-case x. I think that
is only used for font sizes, though.

BTW, the abbreviation for Cicero is C and Didot is D.

I always thought the abbreviation for pica was pi, not pc.

[steve.thompson4]

Depends on what you mean by "XHTML". The W3C recommendation, revision 1.1 (

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[jkaplansky]

P, p, pi, pc, depends on the software... CSS uses "pc". Adobe uses "p"
for pica. Old school typography used to use stuff like 6P10p to
differentiate between picas and points.



And if you really want to take this further, there's an extended
discussion over here:
mentions that pica (along with terms like nonpareil and brevier) used to
be a type size.

Here are some definitions from the Glossary of Typesetting Terms
(Eckersley, Angstadt, Ellertson, Hendel, Pascal and Scott, University of
Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1994). No mention of word origins for
pica, ...

[GarethOakes]

.. and then you get into arguments about what is the correct size for
a point! Traditional typesetting has 1 pt = 1/72.27", whereas
PostScript and most modern DTP (Adobe) software uses 1 pt = 1/72".
More convenient for those using inches and stuff, but creates endless
problems for us when trying to reproduce page layouts etc.

Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (aka. APP or 3B2) uses 1/72.27"
points by default. Out of interest - what is the default measurement
of a point for Arbortext Publishing Engine? I'm guessing, based on the
underlying TeX, it's got to be 1/72.27".

Cheers,
Gareth

Quoting "Kaplansky, Jean" <->:

> P, p, pi, pc, depends on the software... CSS uses "pc". Adobe uses "p"
> for pica. Old school typography used to use stuff like 6P10p to
> differentiate between picas and points.
>
>
>
> And if you really want to take this further, there's an extended
> discussion over here:
> mentions that pica (along with terms like nonpareil and brevier) used to
> be a type size.
>
> Here are some definitions from the Glossary of Typesetting Terms
> (Eckersley, Angstadt, Ellertson, Hendel, Pascal and Scott, University of
> Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 1994). No mention of word origins...

[ptc-1908075]

Print Composer and PE use 1pt=1/72.27in because of the underlying TeX, as you say.

I suspect 1pt=1/72in isfrom the typewriter, which uses 6 lines to the inch.

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