From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/72525 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pontus Lurcock Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:35:04 +1300 Message-ID: <20111118023504.GP5988@rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: <40B58B5E-0738-438E-AEA5-47D06097E8BA@csiro.au> <0DE0B3A5-2FE9-4FE6-B2E5-F420B661F200@csiro.au> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321583728 7599 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2011 02:35:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:35:28 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 18 03:35:24 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RREIW-0007DR-2M for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F06BCB0ED; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:23 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ltcqcJCh72JN; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 067EDCB0C8; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16BECCB0C8 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:18 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id J4ak5P0cbXmf for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E05CB0C3 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk (rae.talvi.net [89.16.174.99]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id pAI2Z4Ip024066 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:35:05 +0100 Original-Received: from pont by rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RREIC-0000aI-6d for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:35:04 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <0DE0B3A5-2FE9-4FE6-B2E5-F420B661F200@csiro.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=89.16.174.99; country=GB; latitude=54.0000; longitude=-2.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=54.0000,-2.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 07FWqz44j - 660012cec574 - 20111118 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:72525 Archived-At: 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 =B0, or between the =B0 and the C. Pont ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________