Lunghezze in LaTeX

Estratto, tradotto e adattatato da Lengths in LaTeX

Unità di misura

Abbreviation	Value
pt	a point is approximately 1/72.27 inch, that means about 0.0138 inch or 0.3515 mm (exactly point is defined as 1/864 of American printer's foot that is 249/250 of English foot)
mm	a millimeter
cm	a centimeter
in	inch
ex	roughly the height of an x (lowercase) in the current font
em	roughly the width of an M (uppercase) in the current font
mu	math unit equal to 1/18 em, where em is taken from the math symbols family
sp	so-called "special points", a low-level unit of measure where 65536sp=1pt

Lunghezze comuni

Length	Description
\baselineskip	Vertical distance between lines in a paragraph
\columnsep	Distance between columns
\columnwidth	The width of a column
\evensidemargin	Margin of even pages, commonly used in two-sided documents such as books
\linewidth	Width of the line in the current environment
\oddsidemargin	Margin of odd pages, commonly used in two-sided documents such as books
\paperwidth	Width of the page
\paperheight	Height of the page
\parindent	Paragraph indentation
\parskip	Vertical space between paragraphs
\tabcolsep	Separation between columns in a table (tabular environment)
\textheight	Height of the text area in the page
\textwidth	Width of the text area in the page
\topmargin	Length of the top margin