David Kastrup wrote:
I have also filed this several months ago as a bug report to Bb, so there is a minuscule chance of Knuth considering a fix upstream at the end of the year. I know that he has an aversion of changing anything with such an impact, but then he wants TeX to become an epitaph, and what kind of epitaph for the author of "The Art of Computing -- Seminumerical Algorithms" would it be if "1in" and "72.27pt" had different values?
in a sense he's saying that a pt in tex is not really a pt (tex book) which means that 1in is not 72.27 pt; the problem is that in the tex book he mentions those two values (as he does with cm and in and such) i guess that you have a better change with filing a bug for the tex book: \eq should be \approx dek could also say: use cm instead of in -) I think that the assumption is that one stays within a similar unit. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------