From: Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Automatic thousands separation in \unit
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:43:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F3D5B5EB-3600-4229-A07C-DCA7CBDCD7AB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190131132800.0eb21089@homerow>
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Hi Marco,
Can this give what you wish?
\define[2]\myunit{\spaceddigits{#1}\unit{#2}}
\starttext
\myunit{123456789}{volt}
\stoptext
> On 31 Jan 2019, at 13:28, Marco Patzer <lists@homerow.info> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I'm wondering if there's a way to have automatic thousands separation in the
> \unit command? \spaceddigits does that, but it doesn't work inside \unit. And
> using both would be quite verbose to write. Example:
>
> \starttext
> %% no thousands separation
> \unit{123456789 volt}
>
> %% manual thousands separation works
> \unit{123,456,789 volt}
>
> %% automatic thousands separation, but not using \unit
> \let\spaceddigitsseparator,
> \spaceddigits{123456789}\,V
>
> %% fails, no output
> \unit{\spaceddigits{123456789} volt}
> \stoptext
>
> Marco
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-31 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-31 12:28 Marco Patzer
2019-01-31 12:43 ` Otared Kavian [this message]
2019-01-31 14:00 ` Clyde Johnston
2019-01-31 14:54 ` Hans Åberg
2019-02-02 10:59 ` Axel Kielhorn
2019-02-05 11:22 ` Marco Patzer
2019-02-09 20:22 ` Marco Patzer
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