In United States, newspaper advertisement still use this as a unit to calculate column space, i.e. number of Agate lines of a certain column width. 14 agate lines equal 1 inch.

• 在美国，报纸上的广告仍用这个单位计算篇幅，即若干雅基行乘柱位阔。雅基行相等一英寸。