Re: [Docutils-users] [Docutils-develop] default length unit?

[Guenter M. <mi...@us...>]

On 2009-01-13, Alan G Isaac wrote:

> Note that LaTeX has both pt and bp,
> and for this purpose I think bp is preferred.

That is the "Postscript point" used outside LaTeX, right?

Actually, pdflatex even has px (screen pixel). However 

* as the end-format is a document on pages with fixed size, it seems more
  reasonable to use a fixed size for the default length unit as well.

* it is (to me) unclear at what stage the screen-resolution is used to
  compute the actual size in the document (generation vs.
  viewing/printing).

* it is not supported by "non-pdf" latex, so I hesitate to use it as
  default.
  
I vote for bp as default.

Günter