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Re: Amendments in calc-units.el


From: Jay Belanger
Subject: Re: Amendments in calc-units.el
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:41:18 -0500
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Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> 2005/10/16, Torsten Bronger <address@hidden>:
>> Secondly, "point" should be renamed "bp" (big point).  It's not
>> *the* point after all (but an invention by Adobe, as far as I know).
>
> I suspect more calc users use postscript points than "real points"...

I don't have a strong opinion on this, but would using "point" for
PostScript point be less accurate?  Also, using "point" for point (of
whatever kind) and "tpt" for TeX point lacks symmetry; perhaps
"texpoint" for TeX point would be better.

Jay




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