Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Eric
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Eric Abrahamsen
>> <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>>> Lastly, is there a way to both use output formatting, and retain the
>>> unit name (if desired)? Right now I get this:
>>>
>>> | km    | units | conversion |
>>> |-------+-------+------------|
>>> | 2.5km | ft    |    8202.10 |
>>> #+TBLFM: $3=uconvert($1, $2); %.2f
>>>
>>> Ie, the "ft" falls off the results when I add the "%.2f". Is it possible
>>> to retain that and have formatting?
>>
>> Yes, see
>> "org-spreadsheet: formatting chops off units"
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/59928
>
> I'm certainly late to this party! My only excuse is that it's far from
> obvious, given the current manual, that all this is available (even
> after your documentation patch in the referenced thread).
>
> Just to note, the second of the two formatting solutions you mentioned
> (manually adding the units as a string) seems to no longer work. The
> first does, however.
>
> I'll work up a slightly longer documentation patch in the next couple of
> days -- I really think people should be alerted to what's possible with
> units. The "uconvert" defmath could even just be an example in the
> manual, rather than code that ships with Org.

Here's the doc patch, hope all is in order.

Eric