[libreoffice-users] Re: register true origins

At 12:39 07/08/2012 -0700, Andrew Brager wrote:
> Yet, it fails to answer my original question which is where do the 
> words "register true" come from, and to extend and clarify the 
> question - how did register true come to mean "aligning baselines"?

I think that bit's fairly easy.  According to the dictionary, one 
sense of "register" as a noun is "a state of proper alignment" and as 
a verb "to adjust so as to be properly aligned" or "to be in proper 
alignment".  And "true" similarly can mean as an adjective 
"accurately placed", and as an adverb "precisely" or "exactly".  So 
"register true" can mean "align exactly" or "precise 
alignment".  (There's nothing about baselines - but we're talking 
about vertical alignment, so what else could you align?)

Brian Barker


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