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It was the orders of service which you refer to in terms of pica. The "pica" was the size of the initial capital, standardised on 1/6th of an inch (or thereabouts). It was purely arbitrary until type was "standardised" for newspapers. Now, a pica is a standard size. I still have a pica ruler from my 15 years as a printer ... sad bastard, aren't I?
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