Le samedi 24 novembre 2012, Hans Hagen a écrit :
> On 11/24/2012 1:48 AM, Sietse Brouwer wrote:
> >>> The '^' and 'e' all print a '10 ×' at the begining. It's what is
> >>> expected for
> >>> 'e' but not for '^'. Did I miss something?
> >>
> >> well, until now ^ and e were equivalent so if that has to change (say ^
> >> no 10) then there need to be agreement about this as it's an
> >> incompatible change
> >
> > I, for one, would expect 2^3 to mean '2 cubed', not 2x10^3. So I'd be
> > in favour of this change. Then again, I have no code that depends on
> > the old meaning...
>
> interesting so then we need a list of more ^2 ^3 ^4 ^5 ... and what
> about ^1.2
I don't know everyone's use of \units but for physicists I think that the only
case where it should be usefull is for 10^something (like \unit{10^-12 second}
;). Maybe the informaticians need 2^something… The other cases are probably
marginals.
> then, what will be the escape for the texlike 2^3? maybe $2^3$, so $
> will leave scanning mode
That's already working and this should be the way when one need something
unusual. Maybe a support for \m{} should be usefull for those who do not use
$...$ anymore. For the moment nested curly brackets aren't supported inside a
\m{} which himself is inside a \unit{}.
All the best.
--
Romain Diss
<[email protected]>
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