On Saturday 11 September 2010 16:00:58 Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
I’m not a friend of the ”m/s” input because you can’t say where a units starts/ends without adding separators between them, here is a example from latex’s siunitx package which supports both methods but although the first is shorter we should rely on the tex method
- si{kg.m/s^2} - si{\kilo\gram\metre\per\square\second}
My two bits, for what it is worth... I have never liked the \kilo\gram\meter\per\square\second particularly as we now have utf8 input. To be most readable, kg.m/s² is far superior. (and to be digestable by non-TeX users, as yes, I do often share my document source with collegues who do not use TeX, and they even often edit them using MS-Word, for example, as a text editor) I should use some sort of units module, as writing, as I do, 0{,}2\,nm$^2$ is pretty ugly! Alan