Scale for rulers, and measure in mils (1/1000 in)

Hi Richard,

I'm not an expert on imperial units, but isn't the behaviour of the ruler just what you'd expect it to be?
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch), "subdivisions of an inch are typically written using dyadic fractions with odd number numerators; for example, two and three eighths of an inch would be written as 2 3/8″ and not as 2.375″ nor as 2 6/16″."

The spinboxes to choose the unit, in contrast, don't display this behaviour, because it's impractical, I guess.
(I do understand that this behaviour is more useful to you)

There are already feature requests for custom units, for example here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171488 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1096640

I think those requested features would probably satisfy your requirements. You could add yourself to the supporters, and describe your use case in a comment.

Regards,
 Maren

Thanks for your comments Maren -- I'll look at those feature requests tomorrow.
 --Richard

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 Subject: Re: [Question #264978]: Scale for rulers, and measure in mils (1/1000 in)

Your question #264978 on Inkscape changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/264978

Hachmann posted a new comment:
Hi Richard,

I'm not an expert on imperial units, but isn't the behaviour of the ruler just what you'd expect it to be?
According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch), "subdivisions of an inch are typically written using dyadic fractions with odd number numerators; for example, two and three eighths of an inch would be written as 2 3/8″ and not as 2.375″ nor as 2 6/16″."

The spinboxes to choose the unit, in contrast, don't display this behaviour, because it's impractical, I guess.
(I do understand that this behaviour is more useful to you)

There are already feature requests for custom units, for example here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171488 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1096640

I think those requested features would probably satisfy your
requirements. You could add yourself to the supporters, and describe
your use case in a comment.

Regards,
 Maren

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