I would suggest that efforts to metricate can benefit from practical
use of appropriate style guide resources.
As much as anyone hopes to confirm that a particular choice of usage
is correct, there exist a large number of different style guides.
What is important here is not that journali
Where does the "should" come from in the first place? The BIPM? The AP Style
Guide? Chicago? Fowler? My high school typing instructor? Issues of usage,
style, and typography are off-topic. That may be unintuitive for us because
SI stimulates the same part of our brain as do rules of usage etc. - ju
Victor,
Very well stated. You show that terms like 'traditional' (or
'customary') can communicate the use of a pre-metric system of
measurement clearly and objectively.
I hope that the AP and NYT style guides can revise rules that
'default' to expressions that are oftentimes not as releva
Stan,
Good advice.
However I would omit the word 'always' because it will still read the
same:
[revised]: Original units should be reported first ...
A practical benefit is that an exception to the rule, as in the
presentation of a table or a chart for example, won't conflict with
the r
CORRECTION
Earlier I wrote:
... the non-breaking
space ... in "Pages", Apple's word processor ... is entered
by typing (control)-(space bar)..
That as not correct.
I get the non-breaking space
by typing (option)-(space),
not (control)-(space).
Sorry for the error.
Regards,
Bill Hooper
Fern
The death has taken place of Seamus Brennan, former Minister of
Transport for Ireland at the age of 60.
A popular politician, who enjoyed a reputation as an innovative and
effective minister, it was he who signed the order that finally
implemented the metric changeover on Ireland's speed signs
Absolutely! The NIST documents are great.
I would also recommend not showing U.S. readers any documents that use the
spelling "-metre" - not if we want to persuade them.
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