[ARC5] The International System of Units (SI)

[Glen Zook]

The main problem with word processors is that they try to auto-correct everything and there are definitely "technical" terms that the program does not recognize and, if you don't realize that the spelling has been changed, things can turn out a lot different from what was intended!

It is possible, in most word processors to add to the dictionary to eliminate some of the changes.  However, how many persons actually take the time to do this?  I know that I don't routinely take the time to add words, just correct the spelling which has already been automatically corrected back to what I want the spelling to be!
 Glen, K9STH 
Website: http://k9sth.net

      From: Bart Lee <kv6lee at gmail.com>
 To: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> 
Cc: To: ARC-5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
 Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 8:57 PM
 Subject: Re: [ARC5] The International System of Units (SI)
   
In Emergency Services, we now have to speak plain language. All of these abbreviations (and many others, especially in the law and scholarship) came about when type and type setting was expensive. Because of all the lurking ambiguities in abbreviations, even official ones, I try to write in plain language and spell everything out (even for sophisticated readers, at least at first). Our "WordProcessors" make this easy to do, throughout a note or even big document. The extra electrons don't mind. Readers may appreciate it.
Reading confused and confusing old diagrams is another issue...

  
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