From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Unknown units es and dk
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 10:40:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c0669007-9035-4d1e-86e1-d7df7e4d8498@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5150fa2-a4e8-4801-bfc1-38a9ba22bf93@fiee.net>
On 3/23/2024 8:31 PM, Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
> Am 23.03.24 um 19:05 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> On 3/23/2024 2:27 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>>> Regarding the dk unit: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/tb132hagen-dk.pdf
>> The es, ts and eu are discussed here:
>>
>> https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-2/tb137egger-edith.pdf
>
> In German, I call these "Spaßeinheiten" (units of measurement =
> "Maßeinheiten"; Spaß = fun; "units of leisurement" might be a good
> translation).
Apart from being fun they are also useful, for instance the "ts" (and
dk) make good framed offsets when making examples. Of the "serious" unit
is only use pt, mm and cm (and bp in the backend).
Hans
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-23 12:57 [NTG-context] " Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context
2024-03-23 13:27 ` [NTG-context] " Wolfgang Schuster
2024-03-23 18:05 ` Hans Hagen
2024-03-23 19:31 ` Hraban Ramm
2024-03-24 9:40 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2024-03-24 8:29 ` Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context
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