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From: Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in \unit
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 20:26:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <891E592D-325C-45D4-B1EB-D789C173A4C0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111207222740.5ec7dc28@homerow>

 I solved this = getting what I wanted by writing my own macro:

\define[3]\physicalquantitye{\hbox{#1 \times \unit{10^#2 #3}}}
%  \physicalquantitye{number}{exponent}{unit} -- gives short form of unit


That makes sense to me and is working fine.

There are a few more like this on the wiki (units page), in case anyone finds them useful.

On 7 Dec 2011, at 21:27, Marco wrote:
> 
> 
> Another thing:
> 
> \unit{3.4e-5} yields to 3.4⁻⁵ that's expected according to
> the manual. But  how to get 3.4·10⁻⁵ (either  with \cot or
> \times)?
> 



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-08 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-07 21:27 Marco
2011-12-07 22:59 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-12-07 23:12   ` Marco
2011-12-07 23:20     ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-12-08  5:51       ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2011-12-08 20:26 ` Ian Lawrence [this message]
2011-12-09 19:22 ` Hans Hagen
2011-12-09 19:41   ` Marco
2011-12-09 19:54     ` Hans Hagen
2011-12-09 21:01       ` Marco
2011-12-09 21:15         ` Hans Hagen

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