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On 8-7-2011 5:27, Ian Lawrence wrote:
Back on topic...
In starting out we often want to write out the units in full - that is the words, not the abbreviations.
any chance of implementing these? At the moment I have (crudely, I suspect) a large number of definitions of the kind
\define\metre{\;{\tf m}} \define\metrew{\;{\tf metre}} \define\kilometre{\;{\tf km}} \define\kilometrew{\;{\tf kilometre}} \define\millimetre{\;{\tf mm}} \define\millimetrew{\;{\tf millimetre}} \define\centimetre{\;{\tf cm}} \define\centimetrew{\;{\tf centimetre}}
Which is *my way* of getting what I wanted - prior to this upgrade...
we do have \unit {10 km} and \unit {10 kilo meter} etc but currently they expand to km it's no big deal to have the expandable form (slight variation of the old units mechanism) but in mkiv it would be \defineunit[fullunit][...=yes] and then \fullunit{10 km} would that work out ok? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------