On Sun, 7 May 2023 13:00:18 +0100
Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context wrote:
> Will there be new units to represent the amount of alcohol that has
> to be imbibed in order to (a) create the joke and (b) understand it?
>
> I'm not sure which of these needs to be the larger. Perhaps that
> could be
Am 07.05.23 um 12:29 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
Edith Sundqvist : on-site research, presentation
Mikael Sundqvist : scientific supervisor, calibration, article
Willi Egger : quality assurance, edithorial device
Karl Berry : peer review, tugboat
Hans Hagen :
Hi Hraban,
Attached a picture of the edithorial which is now in posession of the
one who's name comes closest to it. A bit like the 'meter' makes Paris
famous, this one will put the (engineering) university of Lund on the
map. Up to the reader to figure out the magick slot and workings. Yet
On 5/7/2023 2:00 PM, Bruce Horrocks wrote:
On 7 May 2023, at 10:45, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
ps. For those unfamiliar with the tex community, when we talk 'research' and
such, keep in mind that most tex related research is kind of bogus, wishful
thinking, sounding serious, etc.
> On 7 May 2023, at 10:45, Hans Hagen via ntg-context
> wrote:
>
> ps. For those unfamiliar with the tex community, when we talk 'research' and
> such, keep in mind that most tex related research is kind of bogus, wishful
> thinking, sounding serious, etc. and that most 'projects' are just
On 5/7/2023 12:09 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
I know it’s not funny to explain jokes, but I don’t seem to know all
people involved.
You know a subset:
Edith Sundqvist : on-site research, presentation
Mikael Sundqvist : scientific supervisor, calibration, article
Willi
Am 07.05.23 um 11:45 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
I didn’t understand all details, and I guess some spelling errors are
intentional – was there a Calli? Does “precission” refer to anything?
And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores?
the theodore is only used in reporting an overflow so
On 5/7/2023 11:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context wrote:
On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 11:11, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores?
I assume it must be "tr", though it's somewhat ambiguous what the "r"
in "tr" stands for, it seems to be
On 5/7/2023 11:29 AM, Mojca Miklavec via ntg-context wrote:
On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 11:11, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores?
I assume it must be "tr", though it's somewhat ambiguous what the "r"
in "tr" stands for, it seems to be
On 5/7/2023 11:10 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
Am 04.05.23 um 10:01 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
Hi,
We now officially have three new units. These were officially
introducd at the 2023 BachoTeX meeting in a presentation where the
chair of the four person strong team
On Sun, 7 May 2023 at 11:11, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context wrote:
>
> And what’s the abbreviation for Theodores?
I assume it must be "tr", though it's somewhat ambiguous what the "r"
in "tr" stands for, it seems to be country-dependent ;)
Mojca
Am 04.05.23 um 10:01 schrieb Hans Hagen via ntg-context:
Hi,
We now officially have three new units. These were officially introducd
at the 2023 BachoTeX meeting in a presentation where the chair of the
four person strong team also did the final live callibration (using the
edithorial
On 5/7/2023 2:10 AM, skyhorse--- via ntg-context wrote:
Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
..
Oh, so a bug, I'll fix the message. Not really a unit but then, feet
is also not one.
That is incorrect. Feet is an establish and proper unit of measurement, which
consists of 12 inches. It
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,
Hi Michael,
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 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
On Sat, 06 May 2023 16:10:31 -0800
skyhorse--- via ntg-context wrote:
>
>
> Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> >..
> > Oh, so a bug, I'll fix the message. Not really a unit but then, feet
> > is also not one.
> >
>
> That is incorrect. Feet is an establish and proper unit of
>
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
Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
>..
> Oh, so a bug, I'll fix the message. Not really a unit but then, feet
> is also not one.
>
That is incorrect. Feet is an establish and proper unit of measurement, which
consists of 12 inches. It is used by, at least, several hundred million
On 5/6/2023 11:53 PM, Arthur Rosendahl via ntg-context wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
These units can be used in the current upload. In a next upload the "19 feet
max" message that tex issues when reaching a maximum will be adapted to a
more
On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 10:01:25AM +0200, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> These units can be used in the current upload. In a next upload the "19 feet
> max" message that tex issues when reaching a maximum will be adapted to a
> more realistic variant. (Actually, because tex has no foot unit,
On 5/6/2023 6:45 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
The whole point of the so-called "imperial" units is to be based on
fractions, not decimal. May I suggest that we use \sqrt2 as the basis
of our fractions, so as to push the limits of calculation and precision
(that are handled well in the new lmtx
The whole point of the so-called "imperial" units is to be based on
fractions, not decimal. May I suggest that we use \sqrt2 as the basis
of our fractions, so as to push the limits of calculation and precision
(that are handled well in the new lmtx engine).
Also, on this day of coronation,
Hi,
We now officially have three new units. These were officially introducd
at the 2023 BachoTeX meeting in a presentation where the chair of the
four person strong team also did the final live callibration (using the
edithorial callibration instrument made for that purpose). An upcoming
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