From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6833 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eckhart =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \usemodule[units] Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 10:13:23 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3C60F3B3.5040307@uni-bielefeld.de> References: <002f01c1ae89$a3983b60$0100a8c0@xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397340 14171 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context Original-To: Willi Egger Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6833 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6833 Willi Egger wrote: > I am not familiar with the ISO-norm concerning the use of upper and lower > case for units. - My question is, if there is a definition for the 'liter'. > Is the abbreviation 'l' of 'L'. Further how to write Milliliter: 'ml' or > 'mL'? Both are officially correct at the moment. After an evaluation period, one of them will be dropped (perhaps, this evaluation period has already been extended...). I have the ISO standard at home, I will look up and mail the exact wording tomorrow. In Europe, 'l' is common, whereas 'L' is preferred in the USA (and therefore in scientific literature). Pick your choice. Apropos ISO: just think of the decimal sign. ISO says: "The decimal sign is a comma on the line." Now, look at numbers in English texts... Eckhart