On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote: > > Conventions for setting the degrees of temperature symbol vary; see > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Typography and references > > therein. In most professionally published works that I've seen, there > > is no space between the number and the °, or between the ° and the C. > > I agree they vary, and no space before the °C is quite common (and > frequently my own practice too). However in setting default > behaviour for Context I am inclined to favour conforming to > international standards, where they exist (but a \setupunits > override it probably called for).
I have no opinion as to what the default behaviour should be, but it would certainly be useful to have spacing for ° temperature configurable separately from that for other units. Pont ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
