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From: Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [NTG-context] Re: \inch not doing the expected thing (what I expect, anyway).
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:03:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241113110318.2fbe58b6@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8e59bc3-9fcb-4720-8d59-d0c0a501db92@gmail.com>

On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 21:30:15 +0100
Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> \unit{2 arcsecond}

Arcseconds might print the correct glyph, but would be semantically
wrong. I believe the correct approach would be:

  \unit{2 inch}

The question then remains how to configure \unit{2 inch} to produce
(depending on the requirements):

  2 in   or
  2"

Marco
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-13 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-11 18:34 [NTG-context] " Jim
2024-11-11 20:30 ` [NTG-context] " Wolfgang Schuster
2024-11-11 21:49   ` Jim
2024-11-11 22:36     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2024-11-11 22:50       ` Jim
2024-11-12  6:52         ` Mikael Sundqvist
2024-11-12 14:18           ` Jim
2024-11-13  8:27           ` Hans Hagen
2024-11-13 10:03   ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2024-11-13 14:09     ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2024-11-14 19:35       ` Keith McKay
2024-11-15 18:23         ` Jim
2024-11-15 23:50         ` Bruce Horrocks

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