From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Math and units
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 12:04:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121004120414.1341dcb8@sole> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56D29771-7617-49C8-ABDD-987168C7D860@gmail.com>
\startformula
a = 21407 g
\stopformula
:)
The units code should certainly know how to deal with "N"...
Alan
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 11:32:20 +0200
Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 04.10.2012 um 11:07 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
> <LPr@pontex.cz>:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > which is the most correct way to display units (here: kN) in math
> > formula?
> >
> > ----
> > \starttext
> > \startformula
> > a = 210 kN % "kN" is shown like a variable (here: like 'a'),
> > which is unwanted \stopformula
> >
> > \startformula
> > a = 210 \unit{kN} % No unit is displayed (?!)
> > \stopformula
> >
> > \startformula
> > a = 210 \text{~kN} % '~' required?, ugly way
> > \stopformula
> > \stoptext
> > ----
>
>
> The units code doesn’t know how to deal with “N” but you can use the
> full name of the unit (can also be lowercase) or “n” which is also
> accepted.
>
> \starttext
>
> \startformula
> a = \unit{210 kilo Newton}
> \stopformula
>
> \startformula
> a = 210 \unit{kilo Newton}
> \stopformula
>
> \startformula
> a = 210 \unit{k Newton}
> \stopformula
>
> \startformula
> a = 210 \unit{kn}
> \stopformula
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-04 9:07 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-10-04 9:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-10-04 9:56 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
2012-10-04 10:04 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2012-10-04 10:12 ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
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