Thank you, Peter and Keith, for saying what I was about to say,
and saying it far better (not to mention “bringing receipts” as the
cool kids put it).
Everyone I know in the tech writing world uses “point size,”
including myself. Sure, when one thinks about it, it’s like saying
“inch length.” But
On 19/04/2021 09:47, Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
>> Bug #60403 (closed) unified the writing of "point-size" to "point
>> size".
>>
>> The problem is,
>> that this coinage does not make sense.
>>
>> The "point" in this compound,
>> is a name of a
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> Bug #60403 (closed) unified the writing of "point-size" to "point
> size".
>
> The problem is,
> that this coinage does not make sense.
>
> The "point" in this compound,
> is a name of a unit of measurement,
> is thus a constant,
> but its
