On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Hans Hagen wrote: > so, best is that those asking for it come up with a list of issues: > which symbols need this option, is it language related or whatever, > so that i can do them all at once. We can already have different > mapping sets so spacing could be part of that.
I don't personally have a need for units in the foreseeable future (I was just nitpicking with Robin about spacing) so feel free to ignore any of my suggestions, but I think the summary so far would be: 1. Spacing for almost all SI units should be the same and doesn't need special cases. 2. Geographical degrees/minutes/seconds should have no spaces. 3. Spacing for degrees temperature varies according to different style guides -- both before and after the ° -- so ideally it would be possible to set these independently of the rest of the units. For my own part I would add: 4. SI unit abbreviations are mostly capital letters, and look (to me) strange with old-style figures. I have seen books which used old-style figures for page numbers, years, etc. but switched to lining figures when a unit was involved; this is also what I did in my thesis. So I think it would be useful to allow an automatic switch to lining figures to be configured when typesetting a unit. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
