At 06:09 PM 3/15/2002 +1100, you wrote:
>I am using the m-units module to typeset "degrees Celsius" and "degrees
>Fahrenheit" in my cookbook.
>
>The Fahrenheit character and the degrees look very nice together with
>the default Computer Modern fonts in ConTeXt.
>
>The Celsius character, on the other hand, looks only passably good.
>
>I think that both of them would benefit from additional kerning, the C
>more than the F. Is this something that should be done in the m-units
>module or should I continue to use my local hack?
>
>I typeset them at 8pt with:
>
>\Degrees\kern-0.9pt\Celsius
>\Degrees\kern-.5pt\Fahrenheit
I have to think that over, since it is font dependent; one way to handle
this is by defining a font handler
>Also, what is the "correct" way of loading a module with ConTeXt? I used
>\input m-units, which works fine. I just wondered if there was some
>higher level way of doing this.
\usemodule[units]
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