Re: [Dev-luatex] [NTG-pdftex] What is the unit "nc" supposed to be?

"Martin Schröder" writes:

2007/4/3, Taco Hoekwater :

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12pt!=12pc, so I suspect the same is true for nds and ncs (assuming anyone actually uses these units, which is doubtful at this stage).

The bug has been in the wild since 2005-08-01, so I agree: Nobody uses them. Not even the author of the patch. :-{

Well, at least not with large numbers behind the decimal point. The nc is rather easy to break with those (0.6nc does the trick), but you have to cherry-pick values for breaking nd (9.99998nd is the smallest value of form x.99998nd that actually breaks). So it is possible that the author uses nd, and possibly multiples of 0.5nc without seeing the problem. -- David Kastrup