How to automatically prevent breaking of number-unit pair

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Is there a way how to automatically prevent line breaks in between number and physical unit, other than manually inserting ~ as an unbreakable space? I was thinking something like a rule that replaces common white space in each occurrence when it’s between a digit and the unit (which I can define in a list, like µL, mL, mg, kg etc.).

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There are a few packages that standardize the presentation of units in your document:

If don’t want to use a special syntax a lot of times in your document you could use this regex based show rule:

#let prefixes = "qryzafpnμmcdhkMGTPEZYRQ"
#let units = ("L", "m")//Add all units you will use

#show regex("\\d\\s[" + prefixes + "]?(" + units.join("|") + ")"): it => {
  show " ": sym.space.nobreak.narrow
  it
}

But this might interact poorly with other parts of your document (and in this case does not support the deka prefix da since it’s two characters).

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Thanks! fancy-units #qty[value][units] looks simply enough for my application.