\digits

\digits

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello, 

while browsing the source, I came across the very nice \digits
macro. 

But I have some comments: In my opinion some characters don't look right

\starttext
\digits 123.222,=      % short, OK
\digits 123.222,==     % should be em dash (?)
\digits +123.222,22    % OK
\digits -123.222,33    % too small
\stoptext

The + and - should be the same size. 

Any comments?

Patrick
-- 
Silent is the goldfish in its bowl

Re: \digits

[Hans Hagen]

At 19:59 29/08/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>while browsing the source, I came across the very nice \digits
>macro.
>
>But I have some comments: In my opinion some characters don't look right
>
>\starttext
>\digits 123.222,=      % short, OK
>\digits 123.222,==     % should be em dash (?)
>\digits +123.222,22    % OK
>\digits -123.222,33    % too small
>\stoptext
>
>The + and - should be the same size.
>
>Any comments?


strange bug, some messing up i have to look into

hans

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Re: \digits

[Hans Hagen]

At 19:59 29/08/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>while browsing the source, I came across the very nice \digits
>macro.
>
>But I have some comments: In my opinion some characters don't look right
>
>\starttext
>\digits 123.222,=      % short, OK
>\digits 123.222,==     % should be em dash (?)
>\digits +123.222,22    % OK
>\digits -123.222,33    % too small
>\stoptext
>
>The + and - should be the same size.
>
>Any comments?

\def\scandigits#1%
   {\if#1.\digitsep1\else
    \if#1,\digitsep2\else
    \if#1@\digitnop \else
    \if#1_\digitnop \else
    \if#1/\digitsgn{\hphantom{+}}\chardef\skipdigit0\else
    \if#1-\ifcase\skipdigit\digitsgn-\else 
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \skipdigit instead of 
\digitsepbox
            \box\digitsepbox\digitzeroamount \fi\chardef\skipdigit0\else
    \if#1+\digitsgn+\chardef\skipdigit0\else
    \if#1=\box\digitsepbox\digitzeroamount \chardef\skipdigit0\else
    \if#1s\digitsgn{\hphantom{\positive}}\chardef\skipdigit0\else
    \if#1p\digitsgn\positive\chardef\skipdigit0\else
    \if#1m\digitsgn\negative\chardef\skipdigit0\else
    \if#1n\digitsgn\negative\chardef\skipdigit0\else
          \box\digitsepbox 
#1\chardef\skipdigit0\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi\fi}

Not that tested -)


Hans
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Re: \digits

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:


> \def\scandigits#1%


[...]


> Not that tested -)

Looks fine.

Is there a way to increase the length of the dash in 

123,--

Now it looks like a simple "-", I'd like to be able to choose between
"-", "--" and perhaps "---".


Patrick

Re: Re: \digits

[Hans Hagen]

At 13:01 01/09/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:
>
>
> > \def\scandigits#1%
>
>
>[...]
>
>
> > Not that tested -)
>
>Looks fine.
>
>Is there a way to increase the length of the dash in
>
>123,--
>
>Now it looks like a simple "-", I'd like to be able to choose between
>"-", "--" and perhaps "---".

you can tweak:

\def\zeroamount{-}
\def\positive  {+}
\def\negative  {-}
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