textutils (version 0.1-6)

TeXunits: Translate TeX Units of Measurement

Description

Translates units of measurement known to TeX and LaTeX.

Usage

TeXunits(from, to, from.unit = NULL)

Arguments

from

Typically character, such as "1in". When numeric, from.unit needs to be specified.

to

character

from.unit

character

Value

numeric

Details

Available units are centimetre (cm), inch (in), point (pt), pica (pc), big point(bp), millimetre (mm), Didot points (dd) and Cicero (cc).

See Chapter 10 of the TeXbook for details.

References

Donald E. Knuth. The TeXbook. Addison Wesley, 1986 (with corrections made in 1996).

Examples

# NOT RUN {
TeXunits("1in",
         c("in", "mm", "pt", "in"))
TeXunits(c("1in", "2in"),
         "cm")
# }