[texhax] Units in technical writing

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-12-29 at 03:04:32 +0100, seelenhirt wrote:

 > > The easy way is to use \, for the space and \text for units e.g.
 > > $1\,\text{W}$. There are some packages for typesetting units. Have a
 > > look at siunitx. 
 > 
 > Sorry, this won't work. \text is a command I once defined... You should
 > use \mathrm.

It works if you put \usepackage{amsmath} into the preamble. :)

Regards,
  Reinhard

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