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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