From: "Willi Egger" <w.egger@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Fw: \usemodule[units]
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:40:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <005401c1b012$017f3ba0$0100a8c0@xs4all.nl> (raw)
----- Original Message -----
From: K.H. Wesseling <k.h.wesseling@planet.nl>
To: Willi Egger <w.egger@xs4all.nl>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: \usemodule[units]
> According an ISO report of many years ago published by the US
> National Bureau of Standards the litre is not ISO but may be used
> nevertheless, meaning 1 dm^3. It is lower case l and lower case ml.
> The problem is that l looks so much like 1 that the practical
> americans use L for l. In my publications I use the $\ell$ which
> produces a very clear letter that is not confuseable with either l or
> 1.
>
> Best wishes, Karel.
>
>
> On 5 Feb 2002, at 19:25, Willi Egger wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am not familiar with the ISO-norm concerning the use of upper and
> > lower case for units. - My question is, if there is a definition for
> > the 'liter'. Is the abbreviation 'l' of 'L'. Further how to write
> > Milliliter: 'ml' or 'mL'?
> >
> > Regards Willi
> >
> >
>
>
>
next reply other threads:[~2002-02-07 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-07 19:40 Willi Egger [this message]
2002-02-08 8:09 ` Eckhart Guthöhrlein
2002-02-08 12:56 ` \usemodule[units] Nigel King
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