Didot spacing scheme

Can anyone explain the organization of didot spacing?

Up until now we’ve avoided using the Didot spacing because we didn’t want it to be wrongly sorted into our other spacing material by mistake.

But we’ve slowly generated a significant collection of Didot faces, especially Trump.

We have a lot of the spacing material in job cases that is semi-organized.

Anyone know of the system that somewhat follows the notion of em, en, 3 / em, 4 / em, etc …?

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The system I use (Didot) in my shop is:
6 pkt: ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3 & 6
8 pkt: ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3, 4 & 8
10 pkt: ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 10
12 pkt: ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3, 4, 6 & 12
14 pkt: ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 & 14
16 pkt: ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 & 16
20 pkt: ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 & 20
24, 36 & 48 pkt: ½, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10 & 12 (lager sizes are metal furniture)
28 pkt: : ½, 1, 1 ½, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14 & 28

In 8, 16, 20 & 28 pkt it’s common with 3 to em and in 10 & 14 with 3 to em and 4 to em too. The 3 and 4 to em in this type sizes is adopted from the old Leipziger system and is always mixed up in the standard Didot sizes….. when buying old types and spaces.

Gott grüß die Kunst
Jens

Thanks. That feels like that will give me an organization to shoot for.