Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] update and meeting // towards 'in'

2020-09-19 Thread Alan Braslau
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 18:59:20 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote: > On 9/18/2020 5:56 PM, Tomas Hala wrote: > > Hi Hans, > > > > # We also considered that in order to enforce the use of si units the > > # 'in' should go away but that has been postponed (it is anyway last > > # in the checked keywords so has

Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] update and meeting // towards 'in'

2020-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/18/2020 5:56 PM, Tomas Hala wrote: So I vote for keeping it forever, eg. till Americans will completely convert to SI. btw 1: a stronger argument is that we're stuck for ever with dots per inch btw 2: if you look in page-lay you will find plenty of paper sizes that use "in" dimensions

Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] update and meeting // towards 'in'

2020-09-18 Thread Hans Hagen
On 9/18/2020 5:56 PM, Tomas Hala wrote: Hi Hans, # We also considered that in order to enforce the use of si units the # 'in' should go away but that has been postponed (it is anyway last # in the checked keywords so has no overhead). I do not remember details of the discussion about 'in' but

Re: [dev-context] [NTG-context] update and meeting // towards 'in'

2020-09-18 Thread Tomas Hala
Hi Hans, # We also considered that in order to enforce the use of si units the # 'in' should go away but that has been postponed (it is anyway last # in the checked keywords so has no overhead). I do not remember details of the discussion about 'in' but I would like to say that 'in' is quite