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:

18-foot-4-inch height (5.6 m).

Instead, when I try {{convert|18.3|ft|ftin m|adj=mid|height|order=out}}., the noun is missing:

18-foot-4-inch (5.6 m).

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

6.1-yard height (5.6 m).

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:

• {{convert|18|ft|4|in|m|1|adj=mid|-height}} → 18-foot-4-inch-height (5.6 m)

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 {{Convert}} is consistent: by setting |order=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:

{{convert|18.3|ft|ftin m|adj=mid|height}} → 18.3-foot height (18 ft 4 in; 5.6 m)

{{convert|18.3|ft|ftin m|adj=mid|height|order=out}} → 18-foot-4-inch (5.6 m)

-DePiep (talk) 03:02, 7 August 2018 (UTC)