From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/69884 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beta Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:06:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4E172AFC.7010501@wxs.nl> References: <4DF38195.7000805@wxs.nl> <4DF49B93.4070200@wxs.nl> <1F0B43CE-D56B-44B3-A459-1354C34D4AEF@googlemail.com> <4DF533FB.8050100@wxs.nl> <4DF671EA.40403@wxs.nl> <4DF6952B.5060602@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310141239 23286 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2011 16:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:07:19 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jul 08 18:07:13 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QfDaD-00078X-3c for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:07:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B982CAE20; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:07:11 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id GoTJa3JZgXOD; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:07:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A1E9CAE18; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:07:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52B7BCAE18 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:07:07 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 4BRFz-DdkN-y for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492CECAE0E for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:07:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p68G742R020327 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2011 18:07:04 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.2a) with ESMTP id 8642-1713362 for multiple; Fri, 08 Jul 2011 18:07:01 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0bF5s74tS - c42c78a988c2 - 20110708 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:69884 Archived-At: On 8-7-2011 5:27, Ian Lawrence wrote: > Back on topic... > > In starting out we often want to write out the units in full - that is > the words, not the abbreviations. > > any chance of implementing these? At the moment I have (crudely, I > suspect) a large number of definitions of the kind > > \define\metre{\;{\tf m}} > \define\metrew{\;{\tf metre}} > \define\kilometre{\;{\tf km}} > \define\kilometrew{\;{\tf kilometre}} > \define\millimetre{\;{\tf mm}} > \define\millimetrew{\;{\tf millimetre}} > \define\centimetre{\;{\tf cm}} > \define\centimetrew{\;{\tf centimetre}} > > Which is *my way* of getting what I wanted - prior to this upgrade... we do have \unit {10 km} and \unit {10 kilo meter} etc but currently they expand to km it's no big deal to have the expandable form (slight variation of the old units mechanism) but in mkiv it would be \defineunit[fullunit][...=yes] and then \fullunit{10 km} would that work out ok? 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