On 2023-04-22 15:07, Michael H Deckers wrote:
On 2023-04-22 18:21, Brian Inglis wrote:
$ units `cat ~/tz/data/{[ef]*,*{ica,asia}} | wc -l`*12point/277mm*A4paper*80gsm 1.3475787 kg
I guess one would print two-sided so that the 1079 pages you computed would fit on 0.68 kg of paper. My estimate was ~270-272pp; 16 A4 sheets/m^2 == .0625m^2/sheet; * 80g/m^2 == 5g/sheet; * 272sheets == 1.36kg!
Good point - but I have rarely printed anything large enough to benefit from duplex in the last decade - I used to print 4 pages/sheet at home using various imposition packages or print drivers.
And why did you exclude back*, zone*, etc? Did not consider those core, but for giggles:
$ units `cat ~/tz/data/{[ef]*,*{ica,asia},back*,zone*.tab} | wc -l`*12point/277mm*A4paper*80gsm 1.5766488 kg # on about ~316-319pp $ units `grep -h '^\s*#\|^\s*$' ~/tz/data/{[ef]*,*{ica,asia},back*,zone*.tab} | wc -l`*12point/277mm*A4paper*80gsm 1.1474093 kg # on about 230-232pp giving ~73% comment or blank lines by line or page count or weight. I am here excluding data line comments, which would require analyzing numbers of characters and/or areas occupied on the line to get comparables. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry