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Publishing applications such as [[Adobe InDesign]] and [[QuarkXPress]] represent pica measurements with whole-number picas left of a lower-case ''p'', followed by the points number, for example: 5p6 represents 5 picas and 6 points, or 5{{frac|1|2}} picas.
Publishing applications such as [[Adobe InDesign]] and [[QuarkXPress]] represent pica measurements with whole-number picas left of a lower-case ''p'', followed by the points number, for example: 5p6 represents 5 picas and 6 points, or 5{{frac|1|2}} picas.


[[Cascading Style Sheets]] (CSS) defined by the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] use '''pc''' as the abbreviation for pica ({{frac|1|6}} of an inch), and '''pt''' for point ({{frac|1|72}} of an inch).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#length-units |title=Syntax and basic data types |publisher=W3.org |access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref>
[[Cascading Style Sheets]] defined by the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] use '''pc''' as the abbreviation for pica ({{frac|1|6}} of an inch), and '''pt''' for point ({{frac|1|72}} of an inch).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/syndata.html#length-units |title=Syntax and basic data types |publisher=W3.org |access-date=2016-10-21}}</ref>


The pica is also used in measuring the font capacity and is applied in the process of '''copyfitting'''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pipes |first1=Alan|title=Production for Graphic Designers |date=2005 |publisher=Laurence King Publishing|pages=48–49 |isbn=9781856694582|edition=4th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdbH9hQSiHAC&pg=PA48}}</ref> The font length is measured there by the number of ''characters per pica'' ('''cpp'''). As books are most often printed with proportional fonts, cpp of a given font is usually a fractional number. For example, an 11-point font (like [[Helvetica]]) may have 2.4 cpp,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Montagnes|first1=Ian|title=Editing and Publication: A Training Manual |date=1991|page=343|isbn=9789712200090|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ql0dNwaepjsC&pg=PA343}}</ref><ref name="NewsomHaynes2010">{{cite book |last1=Newsom|first1=Doug |last2=Haynes |first2=Jim |title=Public Relations Writing: Form & Style |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXxzt8KMceAC&pg=PA392 |year=2010 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-4390-8272-0 |pages=392–395}}</ref> thus a 5-inch (30-pica) line of a usual octavo-sized (6×8 in) book page would contain around 72 characters (including spaces).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dahl|first1=Fred|title=Book Production Procedures for Today's Technology|date=2006|publisher=Inkwell Publishing Service |page=21|isbn=9781929163212|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLw0spD7tZ0C&pg=PA21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Hartley Everett|title=Newspaper Typography, a Textbook for Journalism Classes|date=1942|publisher=Stanford University Press|pages=36–37|isbn=9780804710831|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeueAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37}}</ref>
The pica is also used in measuring the font capacity and is applied in the process of '''copyfitting'''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pipes |first1=Alan|title=Production for Graphic Designers |date=2005 |publisher=Laurence King Publishing|pages=48–49 |isbn=9781856694582|edition=4th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CdbH9hQSiHAC&pg=PA48}}</ref> The font length is measured there by the number of ''characters per pica'' ('''cpp'''). As books are most often printed with proportional fonts, cpp of a given font is usually a fractional number. For example, an 11-point font (like [[Helvetica]]) may have 2.4 cpp,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Montagnes|first1=Ian|title=Editing and Publication: A Training Manual |date=1991|page=343|isbn=9789712200090|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ql0dNwaepjsC&pg=PA343}}</ref><ref name="NewsomHaynes2010">{{cite book |last1=Newsom|first1=Doug |last2=Haynes |first2=Jim |title=Public Relations Writing: Form & Style |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nXxzt8KMceAC&pg=PA392 |year=2010 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-4390-8272-0 |pages=392–395}}</ref> thus a 5-inch (30-pica) line of a usual octavo-sized (6×8 in) book page would contain around 72 characters (including spaces).<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dahl|first1=Fred|title=Book Production Procedures for Today's Technology|date=2006|publisher=Inkwell Publishing Service |page=21|isbn=9781929163212|edition=2nd|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lLw0spD7tZ0C&pg=PA21}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Hartley Everett|title=Newspaper Typography, a Textbook for Journalism Classes|date=1942|publisher=Stanford University Press|pages=36–37|isbn=9780804710831|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EeueAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA37}}</ref>
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