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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:56 history edited CommunityBot
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Dec 12, 2016 at 21:49 comment added Edmund You may also use the builtin unit functions. Define cmToDpp = QuantityMagnitude@UnitConvert[Quantity[#, "Centimeters"], "DesktopPublishingPoints"] &. Then cmToDpp@8 and so on. (+1)
Dec 12, 2016 at 14:33 history edited Szabolcs CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 12, 2016 at 12:01 comment added Szabolcs To be accurate, Mathematica, like nearly all software, uses Postscript point. TeX, which predates most desktop publishing software, uses printer's points, which are 0.9963 times smaller. I had to correct for this in MaTeX to match the two up.
Dec 12, 2016 at 11:56 comment added Szabolcs @MichaelE2 Of course, thank you!
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Dec 12, 2016 at 11:42 comment added mrz Great explanation ... thank you
Dec 12, 2016 at 11:36 history answered Szabolcs CC BY-SA 3.0