From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24818 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \celsius and \inch Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:03 +0100 Message-ID: <43B2D9E7.7020606@wxs.nl> References: <43B2C4AA.2030709@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135794676 10848 80.91.229.2 (28 Dec 2005 18:31:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:31:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 28 19:31:14 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Erg4t-0002xo-4G for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1458B127E6; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05143-02; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDCC7127A1; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6B0127A1 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05002-04 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4886C1278A for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:31:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 9536 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:39:12 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <43B2C4AA.2030709@elvenkind.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24818 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > > Peter M=EF=BF=BDnster wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> a suggestion for \celsius in core-mis.tex: >> \def\celsius#1{#1\,\mathematics{^\circ}\kern-0.1emC} > > > As is (perhaps) normal for this kind of thing, the "\," depends > on your local typesetting tradition, and the "\kern-0.1em" depends > on the used font family. > > That is not to say yours isn't better then the current one :-) > >> The symbol for \inch is strange: "}". What is \char125 supposed to be, >> doesn't it depend on the font encoding? > > > Yes, it does, so there should be a named character created for it. > > IIRC, these symbols are in one of the unicode planes that are not > (completely) supported yet. It would make sense to do a whole > block (partial plane) at the same time then? indeed Hans