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List of units in LyX
Not all units can be used everywhere. Also see PaperLayout for an illustration of various paper-related distances.
| Unit | [unit]/[mm] | name/description |
| mm | 1 | millimetre |
| cm | 10 | centimetre |
| in | 25.4 | inch |
| pt | 0.35 | point (72.27 pt = 1 in) |
| pc | 4.21 | pica (1 pc = 12 pt) |
| sp | 5.34e-6 | scaled point (65536 sp = 1 pt) |
| bp | 0.35 | big point (72 bp = 1 in) |
| dd | 0.52 | didot (72 dd = 1 French inch, 1 dd ≈ 0.376 mm) |
| cc | 6.27 | cicero (1 cc = 12 dd) |
| Scale% | - | percent of original image width |
| text% | - | percent of text width |
| col% | - | percent of column width |
| page% | - | percent of paper width |
| line% | - | percent of line width |
| theight% | - | percent of text height |
| pheight% | - | percent of paper height |
| ex | x | distance between the baseline and the mean line in a typeface |
| | | Typically (but not necessarily) the height of letter x in current font |
| em | |M| | point size of the current font (e.g. 12 pt with font size 12 pt). |
| | | Approx. (but not precisely) the width of letter M in current font |
| mu | |M|/18 | math unit (1 mu = 1/18 em) |
| enspace | |M|/2 | 9 mu = 1/2 em |
| thinspace | |M|/6 | 3 mu = 1/6 em |
| medspace | 2|M|/9 | 4 mu = 2/9 em |
| thickspace | 5|M|/18 | 5 mu = 5/18 em |
| negthinspace | -|M|/6 | -3 mu = -1/6 em |
| negmedspace | -2|M|/9 | -4 mu = -2/9 em |
| negthickspace | -5|M|18 | -5 mu = -5/18 em |
| quad | |M| | 18 mu = 1 em |
| qquad | |MM| | 36 mu = 2 em |
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