On 5/7/2023 4:43 AM, Michael Urban via ntg-context wrote:
If you are going to introduce new units, you should at least include the Potrzebie, invented by teenager Donald Knuth and published in the humor magazine Mad Magazine #33. The system is based on the thickness of Mad Magazine #26, equal to 2.2633484517438173216473 mm. See the Wikipedia entry for 'potrzebie' for more information, or search for suitable images.
Honestly, I don't know how Knuth resisted putting this in plain TeX. Plain TeX is a format so ther it would be easy, just define
\newdimen\potrzebie \potrzebie = 422042sp but for a real unit you need to adapt the original engine and that will not happen because it's in bug fix only mode. Anyway, you can try it in lmtx: \startTEXpage[offset=1dk] \number\dimexpr1dk \stopTEXpage As introduced in: https://www.tug.org/TUGboat/tb42-3/tb132hagen-dk.pdf Like the ts is makes a nice offset. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------