New on CTAN: smartunits

[CTAN Announcements]

Andrew Mathas submitted the

                smartunits

package.

Version:  1.1  2016-02-03
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Converting between common metric and Imperial units

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 A LaTeX package that implements automatic conversions
 between (some) metric and Imperial units.

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    \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage{smartunits}
    \begin{document}
      \SmartUnitSettings{metric imperial, places=1}
      \SmartUnit{cm=10}                % 10 cm (4')
      \SmartUnit{celsius=20}           % 20 C (43 F)
      \SmartUnit{miles=5}              % 8 km (5 mi)
      \SmartUnit{miles=5, precision=1} % 8.0 km (5 mi)
      \SmartUnit{miles=5, km=7}        % 7 km (5 mi)
    \end{document}

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The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/smartunits

The package's files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/smartunits/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese