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Are we talking Windows without a CJK language pack? I can't imagine Chinese Windows uses a bitmap font.

I'm surprised that anyone actually _wants_ to use bitmap fonts in 2024

> Well we're talking about system fonts here. But, yes, some folks still prefer bitmap fonts as they're inherently less blurry. Only in very specific situations that aren't particularly relevant...

> This is because a multi-line math expression, like a fraction, needs to set its baseline at the math axis height (a constant provided by the font, then scaled by...

How about just making `calc.abs` variadic, and equal to the euclidean norm? It makes sense for any number of arguments, as long as they're either all lengths or all numbers.

> Instead of doing a length operator, isn't it better to think about how to multiply length together ? > This is completely transparent, that is something that should not...

> I'm not 100% following. Is the proposal that lengths should be multipliable with lengths? Because afaict that would require us to introduce a new type that is basically length^2....

@pauladam94 What exactly should the result of `2pt * 2pt` be?

> > @pauladam94 > > > > What exactly should the result of `2pt * 2pt` be? > > I was thinking multiplying the floats. So here `2pt * 2pt`...

> Ok I didn't know at all that we could get back a float from a length that is only a `..pt` by dividing by 1pt. It works also to...