On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:47:10PM +1000, Darren Freeman wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:52 +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > Darren Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > enter the following: "10 keV" , {"10", C-' ', "keV"}. Now convert both
> > > to mathed with C-m after highlighting.
> >
> > I think that you need to investigate the SIUnits package:
> > http://www.math.upenn.edu/tex_docs/latex/SIunits/SIunits.pdf
> >
> > There's no direct support for it in LyX, but you can use math macros to
> > have
> > something that looks reasonable in LyX and *fantastic* in your printed
> > output.
>
> I'm brimming with appreciation at this recommendation - I've had a
> fiddle and I think not only is this the right way to go but LyX needs
> direct support for it! At the very least, there needs to be a section in
> the advanced user guide about this package, with helpful hints like the
> ones you gave.
>
> My original bug still stands but I guess I'm less concerned now :)
>
> I'm not using your suggested macro yet. I'm using the mathed equivalent
> of "\unit{10}{\kilo\electronvolt}" which is taking up a fair amount of
> on-screen real estate. This is because I want the SIunits package to
> handle the spacing between the number and the units too. I would go so
> far as to use the \power command for entering scientific notation as
> well, leading to even larger formulas.
>
> Can you suggest a good way to macro-ise this or otherwise allow it to
> take up less real estate? (I don't know much about the macros, even how
> to set them up..) I will be RTFMing shortly as I'm curious now, but if
> you had something worked out already please tell!
Just write an InsetMathSIUnit and be done. Should be straight forward.
> One thing that I noticed is it's hard to distinguish the following two
> possibilities on-screen: "\kiloelectronvolt" and "\kilo\electronvolt".
> Only the second one will work, but there is no gap to let you know these
> are two different tokens.
Last time I added a bit of space around 'unknown' tokens, people
complained about _that_.
Andre'
