Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: register true origins

       Brian, the definitions you've pulled are from the legal industry  ;-)



On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com>wrote:

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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