RE: [docbook] Re: Consistent handling of all purely presentational characters such a quotes, parenthesis, square brackets, slashes

[<rob.cavicchio@emc.com>]

Markus Hoenicka [mailto:markus.hoenicka@mhoenicka.de] wrote:

> Quoting Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie>:
> 
> > There is some other kind of inch?
> 
> Just for the heck of it: Wiki knows at least a Scottish inch, a
> miner's inch, and a pyramid inch, none of which is related to imperial
> units.


And whether there actually *is* another kind of inch might not be the point. Nothing precludes the word "inch" from being used for other things in the future. Language is not subject to logic rules.  ;-)


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