Maybe this should be a language specific parameter. How would you achieve a similar result with the Indian numbering system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system , for instance? Also, decimal and thousands separators vary from country to country. In France, for example, they use the comma for the decimal separator, and space for the thousand separator. Clyde From: ntg-context [mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Otared Kavian Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2019 2:43 PM To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Automatic thousands separation in \unit Hi Marco, Can this give what you wish? \define[2]\myunit{\spaceddigits{#1}\unit{#2}} \starttext \myunit{123456789}{volt} \stoptext On 31 Jan 2019, at 13:28, Marco Patzer wrote: Hi! I'm wondering if there's a way to have automatic thousands separation in the \unit command? \spaceddigits does that, but it doesn't work inside \unit. And using both would be quite verbose to write. Example: \starttext %% no thousands separation \unit{123456789 volt} %% manual thousands separation works \unit{123,456,789 volt} %% automatic thousands separation, but not using \unit \let\spaceddigitsseparator, \spaceddigits{123456789}\,V %% fails, no output \unit{\spaceddigits{123456789} volt} \stoptext Marco ____________________________________________________________________________ _______ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ____________________________________________________________________________ _______

Am 31.01.2019 um 15:00 schrieb Clyde Johnston :

Maybe this should be a language specific parameter. How would you achieve a similar result with the Indian numbering system, for instance?

Also, decimal and thousands separators vary from country to country. In France, for example, they use the comma for the decimal separator, and space for the thousand separator.

Clyde

Shouldn’t \spaceddigits use the separator as defined by \setdigitmode and \setdigitorder? Axel

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 12:22:29 +0100 Marco Patzer wrote:

Is there a way to hook the \spaceddigits into \unit somehow?

I tried to add \spaceddigits to the \unit command, but it didn't work. If someone has an idea how to do that, I'd greatly appreciate. Marco