Point, pt (unit of measure)

In typography, a point is the smallest unit of width or height measure. It is commonly abbreviated as pt.

The desktop publishing point (DTP point) is defined as 1/72 inch, it is approximately 0.0139 inch or 0.353 mm. Twelve points make up a pica, and six picas make an inch.

In MagicPlot points are used to set up font size and line widths.