Its use should absolutely be restricted to the printing industry. It should never spread beyond it,
Han ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, 2002-03-17 01:27 Subject: [USMA:18804] Re: Short unit names > Han Maenen wrote in USMA 18799: > > >This is also why I fervently support the Q. It is based on SI, the mm, even though it is a quarter of that unit, still simply expressed with the decimal fraction 0.25. I couldn't disagree more. Joseph B.Reid 17 Glebe Road West Toronto M5P 1C8 TEL. 416-486-6071
