Re: \unit and Hertz, lux, and degrees/minutes/seconds

[Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com>]

> 
> Maybe it’s possible with MkIV to check if the text before the \unit command was
> a number but of the number is part of the unit them put in the command, such
> things are always tricky with TeX and it’s better to force users to use proper input.
> 
>    Within \type{phys-dim.lua} all the units and all the prefixes seem to have
>    capitalised names; in fact, they should be all lowercase (even when they
>    are named after some person). The exception is Celsius.

I suggested a list to Hans some time ago, so more than one person has this opinion...
> 
> I think this is a feature because Hans saves also a lowercase version of all
> keywords and you can use both as input.

> 
>    I wonder whether \tex{unit} should only parse and format units, and have
>    another macro \tex{quan} or \tex{quantity} to handle number+unit combinations
>    (obviously using \tex{digit} and \tex{unit}).
> 

I put my solution to this (expressing physical quantities) on the wiki a while ago….

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