Re: [PATCH] doc/groff.texi.in: Define the centimeter.

[G. Branden Robinson]

Hi Lennart,

At 2024-03-07T15:35:00+0000, Lennart Jablonka wrote:
> I think it’s more fun this way.

I'm skeptical.

> -Centimeter; a centimeter is about 0.3937@tie{}inches.
> +Centimeter; the distance light travels in vacuum when given the
> +2,997,924.58th part of a second.

...in a non-accelerating reference frame relative to the photon in
question.

I would prefer not to open a can of Lorenz transformation worms in a
discussion of typesetting.

Off-topic, but surely not out of mind for you, I'm attaching the state
of my groff-terminfo-redux branch, reflecting our last exchange on the
subject.

At present my hands are full with the copy-mode-ification of the `\X`
escape sequence, but I've got that decomposed into nearly as few chunks
as I can get it without having to alter the expectations of existing
test cases.  I hope to push that in the next 1-3 days.

Regards,
Branden

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