On 31/12/16 07:01:05, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> > Whilst reading the info pages on Groff I came upon the following >> >> What following? You have forgotten to add a quote. > > He refers to doc/groff.texi line 5060. The wording is questionable > indeed. Oh. I would have never expected that Larry Kollar's satirical remark would be taken literally. Well, today people probably need `humour on/off' signs... Note that Larry is from the US, as far as I know :-) > Reducing the paragraph to "Inches. One inch is equal to 2.54 cm." > (i.e. deleting the second sentence) should be sufficient information > in this document. Sigh. Certainly.
Leave it as is. Those who cannot take a joke do not deserve to be pandered to.
However, I take offen[cs]e that groff contains no unit calculation for the cubit.
BTW, wasn't the stuff up regarding the Hubble due to a metric/Imperial stupidity.?
Robert