From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/72527 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 16:31:43 +1300 Message-ID: <20111118033143.GQ5988@rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk> References: 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 1321587130 26520 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2011 03:32:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:32:10 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 18 04:32:06 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 1RRFBN-0000EL-Tf for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:32:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1A8ACB0EE; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:32:04 +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 DeYAaBeuDJhv; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:31:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB58CB0E8; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:31:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D46CCB0E8 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:31:57 +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 SxoWyXcad3iz for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:31:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53D8CCB0E3 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:31:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk (rae.talvi.net [89.16.174.99]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id pAI3ViH9002883 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:31:44 +0100 Original-Received: from pont by rae.vm.bytemark.co.uk with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RRFB2-00016T-2W for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:31:44 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: 08FWrvIig - f5567dbb4021 - 20111118 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 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:72527 Archived-At: On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote: > > 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. > = > I agree they vary, and no space before the =B0C is quite common (and > frequently my own practice too). However in setting default > behaviour for Context I am inclined to favour conforming to > international standards, where they exist (but a \setupunits > override it probably called for). I have no opinion as to what the default behaviour should be, but it would certainly be useful to have spacing for =B0 temperature configurable separately from that for other units. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________= ________