From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/79498 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: A problem with units Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:18 +0100 Message-ID: <50B0994A.4050801@wxs.nl> References: <20121123235619.40993358@aga-netbook> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353750872 32672 80.91.229.3 (24 Nov 2012 09:54:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:54:32 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Nov 24 10:54:44 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TcCRb-0000Xs-Ki for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3124A10229; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:28 +0100 (CET) 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 5H2SHsCGo1GR; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EC210206; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFED710206 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:22 +0100 (CET) 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 7Ta5+bDFKUmA for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80364101E6 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id qAO9sKCx026736 for ; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:20 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 4335-1713362 for multiple; Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:54:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121026 Thunderbird/16.0.2 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=16; city=Zeewolde; latitude=52.3302; longitude=5.5364; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3302,5.5364&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06IrlSkwX - 6c88cb65359f - 20121124 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:79498 Archived-At: On 11/24/2012 1:39 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote: > Marcin wrote: >> being quite happy with things like \unit{10 km/h}, once I did \unit{45 >> min}, only to get "45 m" in the resulting file. I suspect that \unit >> does not know about minutes; is there any way to teach it;)? > > I think 'min' is parsed as 'meter nil nil', because (1) min is not > found in the list of short or long unit names, so it's assumed to be > composite; and (2) once processed composite, m-->meter-->m, while > i-->nil and n-->nil. > Solution: add 'min' to the list of short unit names (below). > > Cheers, > Sietse > > % phys-dim.lua > > local short_units = { -- I'm not sure about casing > > m = "meter", > Hz = "hertz", > hz = "hertz", > B = "bel", > b = "bel", > lx = "lux", > -- da = "dalton", > h = "hour", > s = "second", > g = "gram", > n = "newton", > v = "volt", > t = "tonne", > l = "liter", > -- w = "watt", > W = "watt", > -- a = "ampere", > A = "ampere", > + min = "minute", > > [utfchar(0x2103)] = "celsius", > [utfchar(0x2109)] = "fahrenheit", > } ok, added ... but wondering about the plurals now .. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________