From: Xenia <yoraxe@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Number formatting in \unit
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:24:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EE492D4.8020104@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <746538930812A54DA07A768D52329470020EE17449@exvic-mbx01.nexus.csiro.au>
Am 11.12.2011 11:25, schrieb Robin.Kirkham@csiro.au:
> All,
>
> I have put together some suggestions to extend the number formatting
> capability in \unit, particularly for scientific and engineering purposes,
> including basic support for tolerances and uncertainties.
>
> It is a bit long, so source is attached and a PDF is at
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36891398/units6.pdf
>
> Of course, this is just my opinion, so I welcome any feedback from the list.
I like your suggestions. Especially the current handling of `e-23` etc.
is not intuitive but rather confusing and does not meet the standard.
I do not know if there is already a solution for automatically
shortening the number of digits in the output, but that would be nice, too.
Xenia
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2011-12-11 10:25 ` Robin.Kirkham
2011-12-11 11:24 ` Xenia [this message]
2011-12-11 15:42 ` Marco
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2011-12-12 0:14 ` Robin Kirkham
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