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