Re: Possible bug in \unit

[Marco <netuse@lavabit.com>]

On 2011-12-07 Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 22:27, Marco <netuse@lavabit.com> wrote:
> > There seems to be a bug in the new unit system for \unit{kbit}:
> >
> > % bit
> > \unit{kilo bit}  % kbit
> > \unit{kilobit}   % kbit
> > \unit{kbit}      % kB, shouldn't this be kbit?
> 
> kB is kilobyte, not kilobit,

Exactly, \unit{kbit} should output kbit, instead of kB.

> but "kb" is probably also valid?

I don't know,  if kb is a valid shortcut  for kilo bit. kB
outputs kB (kilo  byte). I would vote for  that kb outputs
kbit  (kilo  bit).  But  that  \unit{kbit}  yields  kB  is
definitely wrong.

> > \unit{3.4e-5}   yields   to  3.4⁻⁵   that's   expected
> > according to the manual.
>
> But the behaviour is wrong.

I don't know if it's wrong. It's very non-intuitive, but I
think Hans had a reason not to include the \cdot 10.

> (I just  want to  say that \cdot  10^{-5} should  not be
> just an option, but the default behaviour.)

+1

Regards

Marco Patzer


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