Re: Writing techical paper

[Bento Borges Schirmer]

Hi Oliver,

Oh, of course! Thanks!. I'm surprised the conversion is exact, which
is relieving.

Best regards,
Bento

Em qua., 15 de mai. de 2024 às 15:51, Oliver Corff
<oliver.corff@email.de> escreveu:
>
> Hi Bento,
>
> 1.27 cm is a "funny broken number" only in SI units, in imperial units
> it is a clean half inch (1 inch = 2.54 cm).
>
> Best,
>
> Oliver.
>
>
> On 15/05/2024 19:53, Bento Borges Schirmer wrote:
> > Hi people,
> >
> > I started to replicate the SBC template found here:
> >
> > https://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-e-capitulos-de-livros/878-modelosparapublicaodeartigos
> >
> > I'm using mm, but then I stumbled upon a problem: indentation, such as
> > setting the number register Pi, can only be specified in ens!
> > Meanwhile, the template requires 1.27 centimeters. It is a funny
> > broken number, but anyway.
> >
> > Unaware of this, I tried to specify ".nr Pi 1.27c", and then groff
> > would scream several times with:
> >
> > troff:body.mm:55: warning [p 1, 6.9i]: cannot break line
> > troff:body.mm:70: warning [p 1, 9.1i]: cannot break line
> > ...and so forth
> >
> > Unless there is a workaround, I'll try some other macro package.
> >
> > This is not really a question, let's say I'm just chatting and
> > speaking my thoughts out loud! I'm open to suggestions and directions
> > hehe.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Bento
> >
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