[bug #60957] adopt terms "scaled width" and "scaling unit"

[G. Branden Robinson]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60957>

                 Summary: adopt terms "scaled width" and "scaling unit"
                 Project: GNU troff
            Submitted by: gbranden
            Submitted on: Wed 21 Jul 2021 08:35:52 PM UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 1 - Wish
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

Ingo and I had an off-list conversation prompted by my recent commits
collapsing the varying uses of "scale indicator" and "scaling indicator" to
only the latter.

He said:

> In maintaining the roff(7) manual page contained in the mandoc
> distribution, i have settled for the terms
>   scaled width   for [+-]?[0-9]*.[0-9]*[ciPpfvmnuM]
>   scaling unit   for [ciPpfvmnuM]

I like this, except that I would not apply the term "scaled width" to anything
taking the "f" scaling unit--but this should never arise in practice if I'm
correct in bug #60955 about usage patterns.

I flogged the insanely high utility of dimensional analysis (really its
laboratory-bench sibling, unit analysis) and Ingo rebutted with some stuff
that I think would require me to really understand symmetry-breaking, so I
kind of hit a wall there.

But not one that needs to impede groff development. ;-)




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