From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \digits get \times instead of \cdot before exponent
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:29:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519C81E6.5020107@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201305212335.59985.romain.diss@yahoo.fr>
On 5/21/2013 11:35 PM, Romain Diss wrote:
>> We've already got \setdigitmode, \setdigitorder, and \setdigitspace;
>> it might make sense to create a \setupdigits to consolidate these
>> setups into one interface. Something like this:
>>
>> \setupdigits
>> [mode=4, % -->\setdigitmode{4}
>> % (decimal period, thinspace between groups)
>> inputdecimalmark={,}, % -->\setdigitorder{0}
>> signspace=yes, % -->\setdigitsign{1}; '+ 1.4', not '+1.4'
>> times=\times, % or times=\cdot
>> ]
>>
>
> +1
>
>
>> P.s: I've been thinking I'd like to write more contexty interface that
>> doesn't use predefined modes, but lets you setup the decimal mark,
>> separator mark, the input decimal mark, etc. Something like this:
>>
>> \setupdigits
>> [inputdecimal={.}, % input 3.1415926535
>> decimal={,}
>> separator=\space,
>> groupsize=4, % output 3,1415 9265 45
>> signspace=,] % +3.14159...
>>
>> That could even tie into \setuplanguage to allow setting
>> language-specific defaults. Would anyone be interested in this?
>
> +1 again!
needs a bit of thinking as when we start this route we get lots of new
keywords (with the danger of introducing inconsistencies) so first we
need to collect all potential candidates for such keys (e.g. using
separator might be too generic )
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-22 8:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 7:32 Christian Prim
2013-05-21 9:44 ` Romain Diss
2013-05-21 14:37 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-21 15:15 ` Christian Prim
2013-05-21 15:34 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-21 15:40 ` Christian Prim
2013-05-21 19:17 ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-05-21 21:35 ` Romain Diss
2013-05-22 8:29 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-05-22 12:31 ` Romain Diss
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