RE: rounding problems

[Alan Jeffrey <ajeffrey@cs.depaul.edu>]

Well, if I was going to do it over again I'd use perl, but it's too late
now...  At the time I needed a language with good scripting facilities, and
TeX's macro language looked quite reasonable.  And it means it runs on any
TeX-aware site (blah blah usual advertizing stuff here).

Alan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Thierry Bouche
To: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
Sent: 02/10/98 10:53
Subject: RE: rounding problems 

» For anyone who's wondering why the code does this in the first place,
it's
» because otherwise you get overflow errors by multiplying a dimen by a
» scalefactor > 1000 (TeX doesn't support fp multiplication, you have to
» multiply by an int then divide by another int).

That's one of TeX's features that make me sometimes wonder whether TeX
was
really the language of choice for a software like fontinst...

Thierry Bouche, Grenoble.