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From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] new units
Date: Sun, 7 May 2023 11:45:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff12b636-78f7-0ef4-a134-857abd3f73e1@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62e368a7-9883-113e-a2eb-ee0089b5e188@fiee.net>

On 5/7/2023 11:10 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
> Am 04.05.23 um 10:01 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
>> Hi,
>>
>> We now officially have three new units. These were officially 
>> introducd at the 2023 BachoTeX meeting in a presentation where the 
>> chair of the four person strong team also did the final live 
>> callibration (using the edithorial callibration instrument made for 
>> that purpose). An upcoming article in TB will explain the details of 
>> the process and also a careful mathematical annalysis of how we 
>> reached the right value with a high precission. The actual 
>> implementation is the most boring part.
> 
> Hi Hans, can I have the article also for CGJ, please?
> 
> I didn’t understand all details, and I guess some spelling errors are 
> intentional – was there a Calli? Does “precission” refer to anything? 
> And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores?
the theodore is only used in reporting an overflow so no real unit (just 
like feet is no unit in tex but used in the message)

an article is chicken-egg ... it goes into the tugboat (already checked 
and prepared, read peer reviewed) but it is no big deal if the ctx 
journal takes it afterwards (plenty of time) and then the cg members are 
also informed (it will go in the distribution anyway but normally i wait 
till after publication)

concerning precission, indeed there was a real beautiful handcrafted 
measuring device but as with much research one could sort of predict the 
median outcome esp after the main sample was made beforehand by 
carefully checking some resources; it was nice to see how most 
attendents properties fit the bill

(Alan will be pleased to know that actually the Thumb was the starting 
point which happens to be close to an inch and the oid Dutch measure is 
Duim.)

Hans

ps. For those unfamiliar with the tex community, when we talk 'research' 
and such, keep in mind that most tex related research is kind of bogus, 
wishful thinking, sounding serious, etc. and that most 'projects' are 
just 'activities by enthousiatic users' In the end it's all about 
esthetics which is more about feeling and intuition and pretty much 
driven by user demsnds. In a similar fashion most 'tex conferences' are 
more user meetings.

ps. So 'I didn’t understand all details' is quite okay because the idea 
was to put you on the wrong foot (or theodore). It helps when you knwo 
the people involved, does it?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-05-07  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-04  8:01 Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-06 16:45 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-05-06 19:40   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-06 21:53 ` Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
2023-05-06 23:29   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07  9:10 ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-05-07  9:29   ` Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context
2023-05-07 10:04     ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 10:06     ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07  9:45   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context [this message]
2023-05-07 10:09     ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-05-07 10:29       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 15:56         ` Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
2023-05-07 14:56       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 12:00     ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2023-05-07 13:07       ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07 15:58       ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-05-07  0:10 skyhorse--- via ntg-context
2023-05-07  2:43 ` Michael Urban via ntg-context
2023-05-07  6:09   ` Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context
2023-05-07  8:15   ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2023-05-07  2:51 ` Alan Braslau via ntg-context
2023-05-07  8:22 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context

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