On 18/11/2011, Pontus Lurcock <p...@talvi.net> 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,
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).
Robin
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