<div dir="ltr"><div>Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I find 25kg, 50ppm, 3m, more readable; but that is neither here nor there.</div><div><br></div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-- <br>Sanjeev Gupta<br>+65 98551208 <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane</a></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 3:56 AM Paul Theodoropoulos via devel <<a href="mailto:devel@ntpsec.org">devel@ntpsec.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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NIST has a page of guidelines for formatting units in documents - <br>
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<a class="m_-5774758564791836381moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html" target="_blank">https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html</a><br>
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I am conforming unit presentation within the various documents I'm
editing to use the guidelines, mostly #15:<br>
<tt><br>
</tt>
<blockquote><tt>There is a space between the numerical value and
unit symbol, even when the value is used in an adjectival sense,
except in the case of superscript units for plane angle.</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>proper: a 25 kg sphere</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> an angle of 2° 3' 4"</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> If the spelled-out name of a unit is used,
the normal rules of English apply: "a roll of 35-millimeter
film."</tt><tt><br>
<br>
</tt><tt>improper: a 25-kg sphere</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt> an angle of 2 ° 3 ' 4 "</tt><tt><br>
</tt></blockquote>
So for example, where there are instances of 50ppm, 8-ms, I'm
updating them to 50 ppm, 8 ms.<br>
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Uniformity of presentation seems like a desireable goal - are there
any objections to following these particular guidelines?<br>
<br>
There's a handful of other conventions codified that may turn up
needing conformance, which I'll also conform where I find them -
where reasonable.<br>
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