Pica, unit of measure
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A pica, is a unit of measure in typography. It corresponds always to 1/72 of its respective foot and so to 1/6 inch. There are 12 points in the pica. Well known publishing applications such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress represent pica measurements by placing whole picas to the left of a small 'p', following by points, as in: 5p6, which would indicate 5 picas and 6 points. Note that all of these definitions differ from the "pica" setting on typewriters, which means a type size of ten characters per horizontal inch.
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