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In article <1903@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) writes:
>It seems feasible to make this configurable--that is, have
>the coordinate system default one way, but make it possible to change it.
>The only problem I can see with this is in transferring documents.  It would
>probably be best to always save documents in one form, and allow on-the-fly
>inversion as they are being edited, rather than storing them both ways.

This is easily remedied by putting the coordinate system used somewhere
in the document, maybe in a descriptive header or something, just like a
Unix plot(1,3,5) file has to start with a "space" command if it wants to
be device-independent.

Actually, if you let the user choose a coordinate system, the whole
question almost becomes a non-issue, or at least many of the arguments
in favour of either choice lose their importance.  Surely I want to be
able to use coordinates in centimeters, not pixels; so why not let me
decide where to put the origin?  (As for me, I would put the origin in
the center of the screen.)

	Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <guido@mcvax.uucp>