From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Possible bug in \unit
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 00:20:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALBOmsZunbeQ98Te0scwod0pW5MCNtVWSCHsFbST8dxDQYptgA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111208001246.28a3c941@homerow>
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 00:12, Marco wrote:
> On 2011-12-07 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> > \unit{3.4e-5} yields to 3.4⁻⁵ that's expected
>> > according to the manual.
>>
>> But the behaviour is wrong.
>
> I don't know if it's wrong.
But 5e3 would render 5^3 which is hopefully still 125.
> It's very non-intuitive, but I
> think Hans had a reason not to include the \cdot 10.
\cdot 10^{x} is pretty long and might be ugly. But writing out
exponent without the base is everything but the right approach. Even
writing out 5e3 is better than that.
Mojca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 23:20 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 [this message]
2011-12-08 5:51 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2011-12-08 20:26 ` Ian Lawrence
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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