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De - Pt| English Dictionary: twip | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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twip point}, or 1/1440th of an inch. There are thus 1440 twips to an inch or about 567 twips to a centimeter. Twips are used in {Microsoft} formats and products, notably {Rich Text Format}, {Visual BASIC}, {Visual C++}, and {printer drivers}; and in {IBM} {AFP} products. Twips were devised in the olden days to describe the sizes of characters produced by {dot matrix printers} that were constrained to multiples of either 12 or 10 dots per inch. [Is it definitely relative to a _Postscript_ point, as opposed to one of the other definitions of {point}?] (2002-03-11) | |
