Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Hans Hagen wrote:
Peter Münster wrote:
The symbol for \inch is strange: "}". What is \char125 supposed to be, doesn't it depend on the font encoding?
indeed ... what \symbolicnameofquotes do you suggest? i never use inches -)
What about Ux2033, double prime? Or - in TeX dialect -
Yes, it's double-prime, not double quotes of a certain direction. Also, earlier in the thread:
\usemodule[unit] 10 \Square \Inch
I believe the shortcut forms are only ever used for distances, never for areas. So a rectangle with sides 2" by 4" has 8in^2 surface area.
in^2 is possible, but so is "sq. in." Ick. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-