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Hello, Frank.

I was also really confused by this for a while. The command to make the
units in the body (or local) font is:
\textdimensionstrue

Without it, I believe units are in the Math font.

hope that helps,
adam

Frank said this at Mon, 7 Jul 2003 17:54:29 +0200:

>Hello,
>
>How do I setup the font used by the SI-Unit abbreviations.
>
>I use something like the following:
>
>\usemodule[units]
>\setupbodyfont[pos,sansserif]
>
>\starttext
>
>The wavelength of the pulsed Nd:YAG laser is 1.064 \Micro\Meter.
>
>\stoptext
>
>The bodytext is in Helvetica, but the units are in times. How can I 
>setup ConTeXt to use the sans-serif font for the units as well?
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Frank
>
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