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 to 2.2633484517438173216473 mm.
See the Wikipedia entry for 'potrzebie' for more information, or search for
suitable images.
Honestly, I don't know how Knuth resisted putting this in plain TeX.
Plain TeX is a format so ther it would be easy, just define
\newdimen\potrzebie \potrzebie = 422042sp
but for a real unit you need to adapt the original engine and that will
not happen because it's in bug fix only mode.
Anyway, you can try it in lmtx:
\startTEXpage[offset=1dk]
\number\dimexpr1dk
\stopTEXpage
As introduced in:
https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/tb132hagen-dk.pdf
Like the ts is makes a nice offset.
Hans
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