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From: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith)
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Subject: Re: Uniform Coordinate Space
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Date: 8 Feb 90 01:17:26 GMT
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In article <909@tuewsd.lso.win.tue.nl> wsinkees@lso.win.tue.nl (Kees Huizing) writes:
>>If a uniform scaling system (and thereby uniform measurement system) is
>>NOT what you want, please explain further in a follow-up exactly what
>>you are trying to do.
>
>In principle, you're right.  But in practice, you may want to use the
>default linewidth and then, if you scale, all lines are suddenly too
>fat for normal use.  This holds also for other sizes that have an
>initial, reasonable value.  I think that it is no coincedence that

I run into this same problem.  Is there any easy and/or elegant way to
get these default values after using the 'scale' operator?  I would
think this would be a fairly common problem.

   Dan

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