URL:
<https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60957>
Summary: adopt terms "scaled width" and "scaling unit"
Project: GNU troff
Submitted by: gbranden
Submitted on: Wed 21 Jul 2021 08:35:52 PM UTC
Category: None
Severity: 1 - Wish
Item Group: Documentation
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Planned Release: None
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Details:
Ingo and I had an off-list conversation prompted by my recent commits
collapsing the varying uses of "scale indicator" and "scaling indicator" to
only the latter.
He said:
> In maintaining the roff(7) manual page contained in the mandoc
> distribution, i have settled for the terms
> scaled width for [+-]?[0-9]*.[0-9]*[ciPpfvmnuM]
> scaling unit for [ciPpfvmnuM]
I like this, except that I would not apply the term "scaled width" to anything
taking the "f" scaling unit--but this should never arise in practice if I'm
correct in bug #60955 about usage patterns.
I flogged the insanely high utility of dimensional analysis (really its
laboratory-bench sibling, unit analysis) and Ingo rebutted with some stuff
that I think would require me to really understand symmetry-breaking, so I
kind of hit a wall there.
But not one that needs to impede groff development. ;-)
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