>
> 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….
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