On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote: > > Degrees, minutes and seconds of arc (also degrees Celsius) are an > > exception and are not supposed to have any space between the > > digits and the degree symbol [1], so to be correct, I think > > Context should by default veto any space between digits and > > numbers, in these cases only. > > Correction, I should have written "(but not degrees Celsius)", > apologies.
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. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
