Re: output lengths in mm

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From: Peter Flynn
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:55

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Philipp Lehman wrote in comp.text.tex:
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> I'm looking for a convenient way to convert lengths from pt to
> mm. Is there a package out there that is able to print a given
> length in cm/mm instead of pt?
> 
> The reason why I'm asking is that I would like to have some
> feedback when experimenting with the page layout (along the
> line of Peter Wilson's layouts.sty), but margins widths and
> page dimensions in pt are rather unintuitive.

:-) Having been brought up on pt, I find mm unintuitive, but
that's to be expected. Without deep surgery on TeX's engine, I
don't think you can get the error messages in anything else.

However, it ought to be possible to train tex-mode or AucTeX
in Emacs to spot the RE '[1-9\-][0-9\.]pt' and make it mouse-
sensitive so that the mm conversion can pop up. Volunteers?

///Peter
-- 
Crossposted to some emacs groups

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Subject: Re: output lengths in mm
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