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Re: Amendments in calc-units.el


From: Jay Belanger
Subject: Re: Amendments in calc-units.el
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 15:29:17 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
...
> The units in question are
>
> pt = 100:7227 in  (point)
> in = 254:100 cm   (inch)
> pc = 12pt         (pica)
> cm
> mm
> bp = 1:72 in      (big point, same as PostScript's idea of point)
> dd = 1238:1157pt  (Didot point)
> cc = 12dd         (cicero)
> sp = 1:65536 pt   (scaled TeX point, smallest representable dimension
>                    in TeX)

These have been added, except in, cm and mm which were already there.
Currently the units functions result in floating point numbers (2 ft
is 24. in); that should probably eventually change.

Jay




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