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From: dveditz@dbase.A-T.COM (Dan Veditz)
Newsgroups: news.groups,rec.food.veg,rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Measures in recipes
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Date: 1 Mar 90 18:22:01 GMT
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dewinter@cft.philips.nl (Rob de Winter) writes:
   [discussing the new recipes group]
>                          I mean the measures used in most recipes so far
> are mostly american. I do not know how to interpret them in the metric
> system. 
>
> Will it be possible to have the measures and weights either expressed in
> two different systems (American and Metric) or translated into the
> metric system if a majority so desires.

I understand the problem because I know how useless a metric recipe
is to me.  Printing everything in both systems would be too much work 
for the moderator (it's extremely unlikely that postings would be submitted 
that way -- by your own admission you couldn't put the Imperial units in, 
and I couldn't do the metric).  As for converting everything to the majority
system -- I'd imagine that readers are roughly proportional to posters, 
so if most postings are in Imperial units and we picked a single system,
you'd be out of luck.

Perhaps the moderator could post a periodic article on conversions, 
and leave the units as they were submitted.

-Dan Veditz      dveditz@dbase.A-T.com       
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