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From: Romain Diss <romain.diss@yahoo.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: A problem with units
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 08:50:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201211240850.29120.romain.diss@yahoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121123235619.40993358@aga-netbook>

Hi,

Le vendredi 23 novembre 2012, Marcin Borkowski a écrit :
> being quite happy with things like \unit{10 km/h}, once I did \unit{45
> min}, only to get "45 m" in the resulting file.  I suspect that \unit
> does not know about minutes; is there any way to teach it;)?
One can add units with \registerunit[unit] and \setupunittext (see line 652 in 
phys-dim.mkiv):

\starttext
\registerunit
  [unit]
  [minute=minute]

\setupunittext
  [minute=min]

\unit{45 minute}
\stoptext

However, I'm unable to explain what exactly \registerunit or \setupunittext 
does.


-- 
Romain Diss
<romain.diss@yahoo.fr>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-24  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23 22:56 Marcin Borkowski
2012-11-24  0:39 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-24  9:54   ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-25 13:32     ` Marco Patzer
2012-11-24  7:50 ` Romain Diss [this message]

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