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EMUs always seemed weirder to me. Like an unnecessary compromise instead of just using metric outright. https://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/poi
by cheschire 5mo ago
EMUs always seemed weirder to me. Like an unnecessary compromise instead of just using metric outright.
https://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/points-inches-and-emus-measuring-units-in-office-open-xml/ https://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/points-i...
- snoopen 5mo agoOh they're a super weird unit for sure. But I do kinda like that it allows expressing both 100ths of an inch and 10ths of a millimetre as an integer. I wonder if they're a carryover from early versions of MS Word when CPU power was more limited?