Template talk:Convert/Archive August 2018

Rendering of foot/inch with adjectives
I want to convert 18.3 ft as a height measure to render with a foot-inch measurement as an adjective of height, like this:



Instead, when I try, the noun is missing:



If I change ftin to a more conventional decimal-based measure like in or yd, the noun appears as expected:



So there must be a rendering bug when using those odd combo-units with adjectives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by D271l (talk • contribs) 19:24, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There is nothing wrong (see WP:CALC) with mentally converting 18.3 ft to 18 ft 4 in given the precisions involved, so the following might do:
 * → 18 ft
 * Or omit the hyphen from "-height" if that would be better in context. That is strange about order=out causing "height" to be ignored but I don't have time to think about that now. I will look soon. Johnuniq (talk) 23:23, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks like is consistent: by setting out you are requesting to omit the first, fully adjectivated+midword value of the three. Then, "By default, the first quantity shows unit name" so ftin are written by name not abbreviation:
 * &rarr; 18.3 ft
 * &rarr; 18.3 ft
 * -DePiep (talk) 03:02, 7 August 2018 (UTC)