18 Nov
2011
18 Nov
'11
2:35 a.m.
On Fri 18 Nov 2011, Robin Kirkham wrote:
Degrees, minutes and seconds of arc (also degrees Celsius) are an exception and are not supposed to have any space between the digits and the degree symbol [1], so to be correct, I think Context should by default veto any space between digits and numbers, in these cases only.
Correction, I should have written "(but not degrees Celsius)", apologies.
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. Pont