> Of Bill Potts > >That's a very sloppily done page on that UK site -- an orderly 3-column >format for length, then a single, left-justified column for everything >else.
Yes it looks like an html mistake. >Her Majesty's Stationery Office evidently doesn't set very high standards >for itself. Their spelling out of all the units, rather than using the >symbols, is somewhat lugubrious, too. It would have been less effort to >use >symbols and provide a key, at the bottom of the page, for the uninformed. Yes it could be better written. But don't blame hmso, they are merely the shop for government paperwork. Blame the people that wrote the legislation. That is the online copy of the actual legislation. In addition to your points, I think that they are trying to achieve two things at once: 1. Define conversions 2. Define equivalent units (e.g. foot-metre but inch-cm) I think that this instrument should have stuck to defining conversions only. The hmso publishes all UK legislation since 1987 online. If you want to search for UK law, then simply add the key: hmso.gov.uk to your search terms. If you want to search UK government departments, then broaden the scope of the key to: .gov.uk
