ANN: Functional Metapost 1.2

[Dylan Thurston]

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On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 04:34:23PM +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>        Dear Haskell Community,
>=20
> version 1.2 of Functional Metapost is now available at
>=20
>   http://afavant.elte.hu/~wferi/funcmp/
>=20
> News:
>=20
> * This version includes English translations of the most
> important parts of the documentation!  Thanks to Meik
> Hellmund, who contributed the translations.
>=20
> * 8-bit color depth bitmaps work.

Great work!  One documentation bug:

> Now it is  time to discuss units. \MP\  uses as basic unit PostScript
> points which correspond to $1/72$ inch. We use them in \FMP, too.
> |hspace 8| defines a horizontal distance of $1/9$ inch or approximately
> $2.82$ mm.

This contradicts the table that immediately follows, in which it is
evident that a unit of '1' is one printer's point, 1/72.27 of an inch;
the Postscript points are called 'bp'.  Which is correct?

Best,
	Dylan Thurston



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