Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Sun, 7 May 2023 13:00:18 +0100 Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote: > Will there be new units to represent the amount of alcohol that has > to be imbibed in order to (a) create the joke and (b) understand it? > > I'm not sure which of these needs to be the larger. Perhaps that > could be the

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 07.05.23 um 12:29 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: Edith Sundqvist  : on-site research, presentation Mikael Sundqvist : scientific supervisor, calibration, article Willi Egger  : quality assurance, edithorial device Karl Berry   : peer review, tugboat Hans Hagen   : implementati

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
Hi Hraban, Attached a picture of the edithorial which is now in posession of the one who's name comes closest to it. A bit like the 'meter' makes Paris famous, this one will put the (engineering) university of Lund on the map. Up to the reader to figure out the magick slot and workings. Yet a

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/7/2023 2:00 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote: On 7 May 2023, at 10:45, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: 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. an

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
> On 7 May 2023, at 10:45, Hans Hagen via ntg-context > wrote: > > 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

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/7/2023 12:09 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: I know it’s not funny to explain jokes, but I don’t seem to know all people involved. You know a subset: Edith Sundqvist : on-site research, presentation Mikael Sundqvist : scientific supervisor, calibration, article Willi Egge

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
Am 07.05.23 um 11:45 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context: 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

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/7/2023 11:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 11:11, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores? I assume it must be "tr", though it's somewhat ambiguous what the "r" in "tr" stands for, it seems to be country-depen

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/7/2023 11:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context wrote: On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 11:11, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores? I assume it must be "tr", though it's somewhat ambiguous what the "r" in "tr" stands for, it seems to be country-depen

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
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 a

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context
On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 11:11, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote: > > And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores? I assume it must be "tr", though it's somewhat ambiguous what the "r" in "tr" stands for, it seems to be country-dependent ;) Mojca __

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context
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 callibr

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/7/2023 2:10 AM, skyhorse--- via ntg-context wrote: Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: .. Oh, so a bug, I'll fix the message. Not really a unit but then, feet is also not one. That is incorrect. Feet is an establish and proper unit of measurement, which consists of 12 inches. It

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-07 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/7/2023 4:43 AM, Michael Urban via ntg-context wrote: If you are going to introduce new units, you should at least include the Potrzebie, invented by teenager Donald Knuth and published in the humor magazine Mad Magazine #33. The system is based on the thickness of Mad Magazine #26, equal

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context
Hi Michael, On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 4:43 AM Michael Urban via ntg-context wrote: > > If you are going to introduce new units, you should at least include the > Potrzebie, invented by teenager Donald Knuth and published in the humor > magazine Mad Magazine #33. The system is based on the thickne

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
On Sat, 06 May 2023 16:10:31 -0800 skyhorse--- via ntg-context wrote: > > > Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > >.. > > Oh, so a bug, I'll fix the message. Not really a unit but then, feet > > is also not one. > > > > That is incorrect. Feet is an establish and proper unit of > measureme

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Michael Urban via ntg-context
If you are going to introduce new units, you should at least include the Potrzebie, invented by teenager Donald Knuth and published in the humor magazine Mad Magazine #33. The system is based on the thickness of Mad Magazine #26, equal to 2.2633484517438173216473 mm. See the Wikipedia entry for

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread skyhorse--- via ntg-context
Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: >.. > Oh, so a bug, I'll fix the message. Not really a unit but then, feet > is also not one. > That is incorrect. Feet is an establish and proper unit of measurement, which consists of 12 inches. It is used by, at least, several hundred million people

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/6/2023 11:53 PM, Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context wrote: On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: These units can be used in the current upload. In a next upload the "19 feet max" message that tex issues when reaching a maximum will be adapted to a more re

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context
On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote: > These units can be used in the current upload. In a next upload the "19 feet > max" message that tex issues when reaching a maximum will be adapted to a > more realistic variant. (Actually, because tex has no foot unit, w

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context
On 5/6/2023 6:45 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: The whole point of the so-called "imperial" units is to be based on fractions, not decimal. May I suggest that we use \sqrt2 as the basis of our fractions, so as to push the limits of calculation and precision (that are handled well in the new lmtx engine)

Re: [NTG-context] new units

2023-05-06 Thread Alan Braslau via ntg-context
The whole point of the so-called "imperial" units is to be based on fractions, not decimal. May I suggest that we use \sqrt2 as the basis of our fractions, so as to push the limits of calculation and precision (that are handled well in the new lmtx engine). Also, on this day of coronation, post-Br