(Also, who uses a pica pole anymore? I thought only relics like me even knew what one was.)
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Still have my pica rule from high school. Keep in my desk drawer at work and whenever someone asks to borrow a ruler I send them away with the pica pole. It makes for interesting conversation when they return a few minutes later looking very humble. Not very often you can get something over on the IT types, but a pica rule usually works.
Pica poles?
Woman, you’re talking to someone who actually got to operate a Linotype.
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I still have several pica rules from my days as a production editor. I usually set my word processors to use pica/point measures instead of inches for things like margins. I still think in picas and points.
Okay, Tommy wins.
PG, when I do design work I still find myself wanting to tell people story lengths in inches instead of words. And laugh and laugh when they say 750 words is “writing long.”
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