Re: [NTG-context] Possible bug in \unit

On 2011-12-07 Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 22:27, Marco wrote:

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There seems to be a bug in the new unit system for \unit{kbit}:

% bit \unit{kilo bit}  % kbit \unit{kilobit}   % kbit \unit{kbit}      % kB, shouldn't this be kbit?

kB is kilobyte, not kilobit,

Exactly, \unit{kbit} should output kbit, instead of kB.

but "kb" is probably also valid?

I don't know, if kb is a valid shortcut for kilo bit. kB outputs kB (kilo byte). I would vote for that kb outputs kbit (kilo bit). But that \unit{kbit} yields kB is definitely wrong.

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\unit{3.4e-5} yields to 3.4⁻⁵ that's expected according to the manual.

But the behaviour is wrong.

I don't know if it's wrong. It's very non-intuitive, but I think Hans had a reason not to include the \cdot 10.

(I just want to say that \cdot 10^{-5} should not be just an option, but the default behaviour.)

+1 Regards Marco Patzer