From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29913 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: units: \spacedimensionstrue fails when using unit powers Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:56:11 +0200 Message-ID: <44D11F7B.3010901@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154558005 14028 80.91.229.2 (2 Aug 2006 22:33:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 22:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Aug 03 00:33:21 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 1G8PHF-00056F-6C for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:33:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BF7F1FB82; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:32:45 +0200 (CEST) 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 15020-01-2; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:32:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F3E1FB8C; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:32:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7F61FB82 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:32:30 +0200 (CEST) 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 14745-05 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 00:32:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 596411FE34 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:56:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 30928 for ; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 23:56:11 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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: 2.1.7 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:29913 Archived-At: 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 > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------