From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: units: \spacedimensionstrue fails when using unit powers
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:56:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D11F7B.3010901@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1G8MgN-0001J6-8s@approximate.corpus.cam.ac.uk>
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> I'm considering switching from my units macros to the units module. In
> doing that I'm trying \spaceddimensionstrue (found in the m-units.tex
> source), which is the most common convention in physics tables and
> books, rather than using \Times to separate quantities with a dot.
>
> But it seems not to take account of the exponent in the first unit when
> putting space between the first and second units. Here's a minimal
> example:
>
actually this is a feature, it treats powers differently related to teh
\Per .. where one does not want extra space)
anyhow, could be an option
> \usemodule[units]
> \spaceddimensionstrue
>
> \starttext
>
> % this looks fine
> \startformula
> \Meter\Second
> \stopformula
>
> % this needs a thinspace after the superscripted 2
> \startformula
> \Square\Meter\Second
> \stopformula
>
> \stoptext
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