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 <romain.d...@yahoo.fr> ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________