From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25446 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Units -- a few things Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:44 +0100 Message-ID: <43D13320.6020809@wxs.nl> References: <43D124DC.7080705@kpatents.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: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1137783604 9881 80.91.229.2 (20 Jan 2006 19:00:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:00:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 20 19:59:59 2006 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 1F01UE-0001lo-92 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D627312863; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:49 +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 24638-03; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B4351285F; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A3ED1285F for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:45 +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 24757-03 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:44 +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 0DE001285A for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:59:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 1771 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:11:05 +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: <43D124DC.7080705@kpatents.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:25446 Archived-At: Ville Voipio wrote: > > Well, then to a more practical thing... This is a very trivial > question, but still. When writing a number and the unit, it would be > nice to have automatic formatting. What I mean is that when I have a > million two hundred thousand kilograms, I would like it to be typeset: > > 1(small space)200(small space)000(small space)kg > > Everything on a single row despite where it is. Now I write: > > 1\,200\,000\,\Kilo\Gram > > It would be more legible, if I could just write: > > \unit{1200000}{\Kilo\Gram} > > Taking care of all the fancy small spaces should be computer's > problem. not mine... (Or does this mechanism already exist?) grep for \digits Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------