From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Romain Diss <romain.diss@yahoo.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \unit problem with powers of ten.
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:51:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50AFFDE5.3050307@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201211232025.21853.romain.diss@yahoo.fr>
On 11/23/2012 8:25 PM, Romain Diss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le jeudi 22 novembre 2012, Hans Hagen a écrit :
>> On 11/19/2012 11:44 PM, Romain Diss wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I got some problems to express powers of ten in the \unit command. See
>>> the strange behaviour with these two minimal examples.
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>> \unit{10^2 meter}\\
>>> \unit{10^{-12} second}
>>> \stoptext
>>> Is this a bug or are these expressions not supported?
>>
>> not supported .. i've added it to the upcoming beta:
> Thank you very much.
>
>> needs testing as usual (and wiki adaption as well)
> I have upgraded my context version few minutes ago:
> $ context --version
> mtx-context | ConTeXt Process Management 0.60
> mtx-context | current version: 2012.11.23 17:35
>
> but your following code doesn't work completely:
>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \startlines
>> \unit{10^12 meter}
>> \unit{10^{-12} second}
>> \unit{10^{12} second}
>> \unit{10e12 meter}
>> \unit{10e{-12} second}
>> \unit{10e{12} second}
>> \stoplines
>>
>> \stoptext
>
> The '^' and 'e' all print a '10 ×' at the begining. It's what is expected for
> 'e' but not for '^'. Did I miss something?
well, until now ^ and e were equivalent so if that has to change (say ^
no 10) then there need to be agreement about this as it's an
incompatible change
i only added support for {..}
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-23 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-19 22:44 Romain Diss
2012-11-20 13:43 ` Romain Diss
2012-11-22 14:45 ` Romain Diss
2012-11-22 14:51 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-22 18:09 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-23 13:44 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-23 19:25 ` Romain Diss
2012-11-23 22:51 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-11-24 0:48 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-24 7:39 ` Romain Diss
2012-11-24 9:59 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-24 10:15 ` Romain Diss
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