From: Pontus Lurcock <pont@talvi.net>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:35:04 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111118023504.GP5988@rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0DE0B3A5-2FE9-4FE6-B2E5-F420B661F200@csiro.au>
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote:
> > Degrees, minutes and seconds of arc (also degrees Celsius) are an
> > exception and are not supposed to have any space between the
> > digits and the degree symbol [1], so to be correct, I think
> > Context should by default veto any space between digits and
> > numbers, in these cases only.
>
> Correction, I should have written "(but not degrees Celsius)",
> apologies.
Conventions for setting the degrees of temperature symbol vary; see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Typography and references
therein. In most professionally published works that I've seen, there
is no space between the number and the °, or between the ° and the C.
Pont
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-18 2:05 Robin Kirkham
2011-11-18 2:12 ` Robin Kirkham
2011-11-18 2:35 ` Pontus Lurcock [this message]
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2011-11-18 3:10 ` Robin Kirkham
2011-11-18 3:31 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-11-18 7:26 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-18 9:28 ` Pontus Lurcock
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2011-11-21 1:00 ` Robin Kirkham
2011-11-21 9:52 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-24 12:36 ` Robin.Kirkham
2011-11-24 12:58 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-11-25 9:29 ` Ian Lawrence
2011-11-25 10:00 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-24 13:42 ` Romain Diss
2011-11-24 20:18 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-11-25 8:18 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-25 13:54 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-11-25 8:29 ` Hans Hagen
2011-11-27 10:59 ` Robin.Kirkham
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