New on CTAN: smartunits

Andrew Mathas submitted the smartunits package. Version: 1.1 2016-02-03 License: lppl1.3 Summary description: Converting between common metric and Imperial units Announcement text:

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A LaTeX package that implements automatic conversions between (some) metric and Imperial units. Example ------- \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/ We are supported by the TeX users groups. Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese