Re: spacing: units in math

[Andreas Mang <mang@imt.uni-luebeck.de>]

Dear Hans,

> On 12/19/2012 7:18 PM, Andreas Mang wrote:
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> sorry for being such a pain in the neck.
>> 
>> Is there going to be a solution considering the spacing problems with the use of units (native mkiv command) in near future (within 2-3 weeks)? If there is none and I am not doing something wrong, I'll add a local work around every time I use units. As this is much work, I'd appreciate if someone told me if this is something that might be fixed soon. If not I'm good - I just need to know.
>> 
>> Explanation of my problem: Maybe I am doing something wrong, but in the resulting document the spacing is bigger in math mode then in the text mode in case I use \units{...}. In particular, the distance for the decimal separator is as if I would type $1,2$ instead of $1{,}2$ (example: $\units{1,2}$)..
> 
> can you try
> 
> \appendtoks
>     \disablemathpunctuation
> \to \everyunits

Thanks for looking into this. The problem with the decimal separator is solved. You made my day with just 4 commands!

Just that you know: I still observe a tiny difference in the blank space between numbers and times symbol (\times) when comparing math mode to standard text mode (minimal example below). AFAIK this does not make a difference. If I find the time i might just put every unit stuff into math mode (for consistency reasons). So my document is ready for being published (in this respect). It just still lacks content :)

Happy holidays to all of you.

Andreas


% MINIMAL EXAMPLE

\appendtoks
\disablemathpunctuation
\to \everyunits

\starttext 
\unit{1,2e3 meter}

$\unit{1,2e3 meter}$
\stoptext

% MINIMAL EXAMPLE
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