PICA, It has to do with the size of a typewriter font. Pica is 10 letters per inch while Elite is 12 letters per inch.
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pica is larger print than elite.
* pica is 10 characters per inch, elite is 12. hence pica is larger print.
Pica is 10 characters per inch, Elite is 12.
The 10 pitch pica is a larger font. The elite 12 pitch is 12 characters to equal 1 inch where as the 10 pitch is any 10 characters back to back to equal 1 inch.
I believe you mean "pica" font in typing which are small characters that are 1/16th of an inch in size. Pica is standard typing font found on most automatic typewriters however, in this the computer age pica is now a standard font that you select in your word editing program such as Microsoft Word. You will have to go to your programs FORMAT menu & find where to select the available fonts. Look for pica in the list of fonts. MS Word also has an automatic way to format typing to appear to be "pica"... Simply highlight the words you wish to change using your mouse then hit your right click mouse button & slide down to the FONT category (or format if you are using older versions). Once on the format font area you can choose SUBSCRIPT and that will result in turning your highlighted text into "pica" font.
Pica and Elite are the two most common type fonts on typewriters.
Pica and elite.
This unit (not in SI) is pica; 1 pica = 4,233 33 mm.
In most word processing programs (such as Microsoft Word), you can select different fonts. Whether you can select a specific font will depend on whether it is installed on your computer or not.
elite is a type of typewriter that can type twelve characters to an inch and one hundred two characters on one whole sheet of paper while the pica has big prints and can type ten characters to an inch and eighty five characters on a sheet of bond paper