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« on: August 07, 2002, 01:30:35 pm » |
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Which one is it? Our Receptionist asked me this question in the door this morning and I couldn't think before my first cup of tea of course. I thought pitch. She was typing on her typewriter when asking. Chris68
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Jackie G
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« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2002, 02:06:18 pm » |
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Chris If you're talking size of font, I'd say point size. I think pitch is used for some other meaning but for the life of me I can't bring to the front of my mind what that is right now! LOL  Jackie www.iqps.org
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« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2002, 02:10:19 pm » |
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I believe Pitch is for typewriter sizes (10 pitch, 12 pitch, etc) and we've gone away from it with the computer. I believe it is point now with the PC but I could be wrong.
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chris68
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« Reply #3 on: August 07, 2002, 02:16:42 pm » |
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I thought 10 Pitch 12 Point on a typewriter, but I believe CG is correct; we've gotten away from this with the typewriter so I think it's just called font now on the computer and you select which type you want CG Times, Arial, etc. etc. Chris68
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« Reply #4 on: August 07, 2002, 03:06:01 pm » |
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Not sure if this is accurate, but this is what I've always believed. Pitch was for typewriter and had to do with how many characters you could fit on a line. If you look at 10 or 15 pitch typing, the heights of the characters are all the same but the spacing between characters is different. The actual character is the same size.
As for point..... I hear this in reference to font sizes. My brother owned a printing company and they always refered to different font sizes as points.... 12 point font or 10 point font, etc. I know that fonts not only vary in width but also vary in height.... So I always assumed pitch only dealt with the number of characters per line (spacing) which is usually associated with typewriters and that Fonts which were measured in points had to do with the size of the actual character itself.
Just what I've always thought.
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« Reply #5 on: August 07, 2002, 03:42:27 pm » |
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Pitch definitely for typewriter Remember Elite (12 in size) and Pica (10 in size) Point - yes, equivalent to fonts. Oh dear............feeling my age now! Pam www.Aberdeen-Secretaries.co.uk DeskDemon Forum Board Staff |
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« Reply #6 on: August 07, 2002, 03:55:05 pm » |
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There are 72 points in an inch. Point sizes are then relative to that measurement. The point size for a font is measured from the bottom of the lowest letter (i.e. lower case p or g) to the top of it's highest letter (i.e. l or d).
Pitch refers to the number of characters that fit in one inch linear space. Each character will have the same width (m will be the same width as an i).
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« Reply #7 on: August 07, 2002, 05:58:17 pm » |
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That's not anything old. I learned all of that in highschool and college. If anyone doesn't know about pitch or point, it's because they were never told or just never learned it.
Just an FYI.
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« Reply #8 on: August 08, 2002, 04:40:40 am » |
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OK, dusting the cobwebs out of my brain, I believe that "pitch" is typewriter slogan for size, and "point" is size that is often used used in publishing newspapers and now electronic documents. The "fonts" are the style of the print (i.e. Times New Roman, Arial, etc.) SNA Edited by superninjaadmin on 08/08/02 04:44 AM. |
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