>>> but use pica (1/10"),
>
>> Um.  No...  A pica is 1/72 of a foot (1/6 inch) !!
>
>But back in the typewriter days, I recall pica type being
>1/10" per character (and elite being 1/12" per character).
>And (almost) all monospaced too.

No, that is the horizontal character pitch that the type writer operated to.
Elite is a character shape that worked well at 12cpi, and so was commonly
used for that, and Courier was the common 10cpi character set.

Pica is definitely the character height, and both Courier 10 and Elite 12
were done in a character height that worked well at 10 lines/inch IIRC.
Elite 12 may have been done with a character height that worked well at 12
lines/inch though.

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