Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread MLewis via devel
On 21/09/2018 1:58 PM, Sanjeev Gupta via devel wrote: Yes, having a sentence ... The change in the value of the residual, after 2 hours or 35 iterations, should not exceed 23 ppm is a requirement of various standards, among which are NIST 543:62 and FIPS 180 published in 2017. ... is slig

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos via devel
On 9/21/2018 10:58 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: Yes, having a sentence ... The change in the value of the residual, after 2 hours or 35 iterations, should not exceed 23 ppm is a requirement of various standards, among which are NIST 543:62 and FIPS 180 published in 2017. ... is slightly confusin

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 12:54 AM Paul Theodoropoulos wrote: > On 9/21/2018 1:07 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > > My concern is that the space between "25" and "kg" should be > non-breaking. Else, readability suffers badly. How do you do this in > asciidoc? > > > By non-breakingI assume you mean

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Paul Theodoropoulos via devel
On 9/21/2018 1:07 AM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: Paul, Personally, I find 25kg, 50ppm, 3m, more readable; but that is neither here nor there. I also prefer 'conjoined' value plus unit. It's a choice, not a law, but I'm willing to conform to an objective resource in high standing (NIST) if that's w

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread James Browning via devel
On Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 1:07 AM Sanjeev Gupta via devel wrote: > Paul, > > Personally, I find 25kg, 50ppm, 3m, more readable; but that is neither > here nor there. > > My concern is that the space between "25" and "kg" should be > non-breaking. Else, readability suffers badly. How do you do this

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-21 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
Paul, Personally, I find 25kg, 50ppm, 3m, more readable; but that is neither here nor there. My concern is that the space between "25" and "kg" should be non-breaking. Else, readability suffers badly. How do you do this in asciidoc? -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/

Re: NIST unit rules and conventions

2018-09-20 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Paul Theodoropoulos via devel : > Uniformity of presentation seems like a desireable goal - are there any > objections to following these particular guidelines? Not fro me. Go to it. -- http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond My work is funded by the Internet Civil Engineeri