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[Groff] About numerical precision
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Thomas Baruchel |
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[Groff] About numerical precision |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Apr 2003 13:24:35 +0200 |
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Brest, le mercredi 2 avril
Hi, I am re-writing my personal macros in a cleaner way. I have a trouble
for the following purpose. I want to implement Adobe specification on
building a SmallCaps font from a regular one, by using \s and \H escape
sequences. But of course, groff isn't a mathematical arbitrary precision
tool :-( I want to keep at least 1 correct digit in the final numerical
value, which is a quite modest purpose (but I really want it, because
10.5 isn't the same than 10 for my purpose).
Here are the specifications and the way I am implementing it.
horizontal scale = .9
vertical scale = ((X-x)/3+x)/X
where x is the height of current x and X the height of current X
OK for the horizontal scale:
\s[9*\\n(.s/10] \\ instead of \ for obvious context reasons
BUT for the vertical scaling:
I need in fact ((X-x)/3+x)/X*s with s = \\n(.s
as an argument for \H escape sequence
I have very easely (X-x)/3+x with a good precision in scaled points.
For instance, calling my macro with Minion-Regular 72,
having x = 31248
X = 46800
I get (X-x)/3+x = 36432 (ie. 36.432p)
which is what I expected
But, I can't manage to get \H'36432*72/46800' without any
error: \H'\\nY*\\n(.s/\\nX' produces a multiplication overflow
and \H'36432/46800*72' seems to produce some \H'0' for obvious precision
reasons.
Any idea ?
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- [Groff] About numerical precision,
Thomas Baruchel <=