On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:34:23PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > Dear Haskell Community, > > version 1.2 of Functional Metapost is now available at > > http://afavant.elte.hu/~wferi/funcmp/ > > News: > > * This version includes English translations of the most > important parts of the documentation! Thanks to Meik > Hellmund, who contributed the translations. > > * 8-bit color depth bitmaps work.
Great work! One documentation bug:
> Now it is time to discuss units. \MP\ uses as basic unit PostScript
> points which correspond to $1/72$ inch. We use them in \FMP, too.
> |hspace 8| defines a horizontal distance of $1/9$ inch or approximately
> $2.82$ mm.
This contradicts the table that immediately follows, in which it is
evident that a unit of '1' is one printer's point, 1/72.27 of an inch;
the Postscript points are called 'bp'. Which is correct?
Best,
Dylan Thurston
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