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Re: Amendments in calc-units.el
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Jay Belanger |
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Re: Amendments in calc-units.el |
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Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:12:49 -0500 |
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Torsten Bronger <address@hidden> writes:
...
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
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>> Anyway, I think it unreasonable to work with gal, qt, but then
>> require "pint". If gal and qt are the usual abbreviations, then I
>> think the normally used abbreviation for pint should also be used.
>> Sure, TeX users would prefer to have pt and bp, but I don't think
>> at the price of making the Imperial system inconsistent.
>
> Thanks to you and Miles for your input. The most important "point"
> is indeed the "1/72in" point. Therefore, I attached a slightly
> different proposal: Keep "tpt" and add "pt" as a synonym for
> "point".
The problems with this are:
* It still breaks the gal-qt-pt conventions.
* I would think most people who know of pt as an abbreviation for
point also know of it as an abbreviate for pint, while I doubt the
opposite is true.
* The units program uses pt for pint; I doubt we want an
abbreviation to mean one thing for the units program and another in
the Calc units package. (There are currently a couple of places
where this occurs; I'll fix them where approprate. The units.dat
file is an interesting read.)
> P.S.: The patch also removes the "degree" for "Kelvin".
Why?
Jay
Re: Amendments in calc-units.el, Miles Bader, 2005/10/15