Le lundi 19 novembre 2012, Romain Diss a écrit :
I got some problems to express powers of ten in the \unit command. See the strange behaviour with these two minimal examples.
\starttext \unit{10^2 meter}\\ \unit{10^{-12} second} \stoptext Is this a bug or are these expressions not supported?
I'm not an expert neither in TeX nor Lua, but I quickly glance at the source
code (phys-dim.*) and here is what I understand:
— the brackets { } are not recognized (a comment in the lua code mentioned
it), so \unit{10^{-12} second} should be \unit{10^-12 second};
— the hat sign '^' is recognized as 'e' so it means "… times ten to the
power…" instead of "to the power…" as one should expect.
So I come back to my problem. I want to write 10⁻¹² s (ten to the negative
twelfth power second). Actually, I'm typing \math{10^{-12} \unit{second}} but
I'd prefer to type \unit{10^-12 second} (for coherence). Is it possible to
modify phys-dim.lua in that way or is this to much work (I have no idea if
this is a matter of changing one line or a hundred lines in phys-dim.lua.
Maybe also this is a too specific request, I don't know…
Anyway, thank you in advance.
All the best.
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Romain Diss