> > Maybe it’s possible with MkIV to check if the text before the \unit command > was > a number but of the number is part of the unit them put in the command, such > things are always tricky with TeX and it’s better to force users to use > proper input. > > Within \type{phys-dim.lua} all the units and all the prefixes seem to have > capitalised names; in fact, they should be all lowercase (even when they > are named after some person). The exception is Celsius.
I suggested a list to Hans some time ago, so more than one person has this opinion... > > I think this is a feature because Hans saves also a lowercase version of all > keywords and you can use both as input. > > I wonder whether \tex{unit} should only parse and format units, and have > another macro \tex{quan} or \tex{quantity} to handle number+unit > combinations > (obviously using \tex{digit} and \tex{unit}). > I put my solution to this (expressing physical quantities) on the wiki a while ago…. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________