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Subject: RE: Need a smarter person than me
From: "Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 16:19:48 -0800


My guess is that there's is nothing to do with
points, or with matching anything, or with lawyers.
I'll bet anything a bunch of people were elected
to set standards, so they all got together in a
room with some samples. Somebody said, "I like
that one." Somebody else pulled out a ruler.
...and a standard is born! <g>

There is no other reasonable explanation for such
a requirement.

Good luck, Sharon!
-Sue Gallagher


At 07:08 PM 3/11/2003 -0500, John Posada wrote:

Regardless of what the numbers actually mean, is it possible that this is a
requirement based on needing to match existing material? ...

On the other hand, the customer never said anything about points, so if this
discussion on what points really means was presented to him, he'd probably
say "What's a point?"

...or am I off-base?


>>...all body text must be 5/32 inches and
>>...all warnings and cautions must be 3/16 inches
>>

>
> That'd be 11.25 points and 13.5 points, respectively.
>
> Those are hardly common type sizes. <:(

Dick
They actually are not type sizes at all. And therein lies the rub. These
are labeling requirements, and they are based on some rather strange
assumptions on the part of the lawyers who draft government regulations.


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