From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jay Belanger Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Amendments in calc-units.el Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:41:18 -0500 Message-ID: <87irvuvcip.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> References: <87hdbihexg.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: belanger@truman.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129664545 26258 80.91.229.2 (18 Oct 2005 19:42:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:42:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 18 21:42:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERxL1-00043A-AI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERxL0-0000GK-Kq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:41:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERxKr-0000GE-Ai for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERxKp-0000G2-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERxKp-0000Fz-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [150.243.160.94] (helo=uranium.truman.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERxKp-00040N-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:41:19 -0400 Original-Received: from uranium.truman.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id C0C7B142AB for ; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:30:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from gold.truman.edu (gold.truman.edu [150.243.160.250]) by uranium.truman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id B609A14232; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:30:03 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from vh213602.truman.edu.truman.edu (vh213602.truman.edu [150.243.64.31]) by gold.truman.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D376E4109; Tue, 18 Oct 2005 14:41:18 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Sun, 16 Oct 2005 10:56:28 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44274 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > 2005/10/16, Torsten Bronger : >> Secondly, "point" should be renamed "bp" (big point). It's not >> *the* point after all (but an invention by Adobe, as far as I know). > > I suspect more calc users use postscript points than "real points"... I don't have a strong opinion on this, but would using "point" for PostScript point be less accurate? Also, using "point" for point (of whatever kind) and "tpt" for TeX point lacks symmetry; perhaps "texpoint" for TeX point would be better. Jay