From: Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Digits and exponents
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:22:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <380A9B58-D387-468B-8DC9-4A5B65816587@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <730FCABC-FFB0-47A5-B747-0A4A044539B3@gmail.com>
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A complete example:
\starttext
{\em digit exponent powers - don't work}
\digits{20^-12}
\digits 123.222,00^10
\digits 123.222,00e10
\stoptext
On 10 Aug 2011, at 08:57, Ian Lawrence wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> I am trying to get together something for expressing physics appropriately and precisely.
>
> The \units and \lunits command and I are becoming better acquainted, but now I ma having grief with with the \digits{}. In particular, exponents don't seem to function as documented in the 'my way' and I cannot find anything more up to date on the wiki.
>
> Input:
>
> \digits 123.222,00^10
>
> \digits 123.222,00e10
>
> \digits /123.222,00e-12
>
> \digits -123.222,00e-12
>
> \digits +123.222,00e-12
>
> Actual output:
>
> 123 222.0010
>
> 123 222.0010
>
> 123 222.00−12
>
> −123 222.00−12
>
> +123 222.00−12
>
>
>
> (in each case last two digits are superscript, as their signs)
>
>
>
> Expected output
>
> 123.222,00 · 1010
>
> 123.222,00 · 1010
>
> 123.222,00 · 10−12
>
> -123.222,00 · 10−12
>
> +123.222,00 · 10−12
>
>
> (in each case last two digits are superscript, as their signs)
>
>
> ???Anyone?
>
>
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