Re: HSL Troll...

>   This points out a serious, looming problem.  The logical extension of
>this last progression is parsecs, which are typically abbreviated as "pc."
>However, this unit abbreviation is already used for picas!  What to do?
>Obviously the authors were not sufficiently far-sighted in their original
>efforts, and total backwards compatibility is now directly threatened.


Practically-speaking, parsecs should not be considered for inclusion, since
by the time a display warranting such units is rendered the viewer would
probably be dead.

David Perrell

Received on Wednesday, 3 December 1997 15:17:32 UTC