On 18-11-2011 04:31, Pontus Lurcock wrote:
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote:
Conventions for setting the degrees of temperature symbol vary; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_symbol#Typography and references therein. In most professionally published works that I've seen, there is no space between the number and the °, or between the ° and the C.
I agree they vary, and no space before the °C is quite common (and frequently my own practice too). However in setting default behaviour for Context I am inclined to favour conforming to international standards, where they exist (but a \setupunits override it probably called for).
I have no opinion as to what the default behaviour should be, but it would certainly be useful to have spacing for ° temperature configurable separately from that for other units.
so, best is that those asking for it come up with a list of issues: which symbols need this option, is it language related or whatever, so that i can do them all at once. We can already have different mapping sets so spacing could be part of that. 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------