[NTG-context] Automatic thousands separation in \unit

[Otared Kavian]

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 <lists at homerow.info> 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 at 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
> ___________________________________________________________________________________

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/attachments/20190131/81441b86/attachment.html>