Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Quinn wrote: > > As a flood of others will no doubt attest, "pica" was the spacing of the > type on those fine old mechanical objects (not the typeface). "Pica" = 10 > characters per inch. The other one was "Elite", which I believe was 12 > characters per inch. Each typewriter had it's own type face (or multiple > fonts), but most followed one or the other of those spacing rules. > > Mike Quinn > pi0ka (pT2kõ) n. Any of several small, tailless, furry mammals of the genus Ochotona of the mountains of North America and Eurasia, resembling guinea pigs but belonging to the order of lagomorphs that includes the hares and rabbits. Also called coney1, rock rabbit. [Tungus piika, perhaps from Russian pikat', to squeak.] ? Fanmail from some flounders? Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.rabinergroup.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html