From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6863 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eckhart =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Symbol for the unit litre (was: \usemodule[units]) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 13:43:34 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3C63C7F6.2000605@uni-bielefeld.de> References: <152277216.20020207111055@bigfoot.com> <5.1.0.14.1.20020208100356.0439ac50@server-1> 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 1035397368 14433 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:22:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:22:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context Original-To: Hans Hagen Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6863 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6863 Hans Hagen wrote: > So, given the replies, i think that we should change the "L" into "l"; > user can remap this to $el$ if needed; an alternative is to use a symbol > liter, that then can be redefined. > > ok? > I can agree with 'l' being the default and 'L' being an option, but I think we should forget about that $\el$ (see my reply to Willi this morning). Either 'L' or 'l', but no script letters for units. International standards allow both 'L' and 'l', regional usage varies. Maybe an option for internationalization, e.g. german -> 'l' and US english -> 'L'. Eckhart