CTAN update: siunitx

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Sun Oct 31 14:18:40 CET 2010


i go out for a sociable cup of coffee with a friend, and the daemon
creeps in, saying:

> The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
> 
> Name of contribution: siunitx
> Author's name: Joseph Wright
> Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx
> Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package
> License type: lppl
> 
> Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> v2.1:
>  - table-align-exponent and table-align-uncertainty
>    options for additional choices of table formatting
>  - copy-complex-root option for moving input complex root 
>    to output
>  - power-font option for controlling whether superscript 
>    powers are treated as numbers or units
>  - scientific-notation option for to use exponent form for 
>    numbers in all cases
>  - table-omit-exponent option for simplifying tables by
>    removing exponents entirely
>  - round-integer-to-decimal option to convert integers to 
>    decimals on rounding
>  - input-comparators option for numbers greater than, less 
>    than and so on
>  - table-comparator option for reserving space for 
>    comparators in tables
>  - round-minimum option to set a floor for rounding 
>    numbers downward

(whew!)

thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the
catalogue repository.

> Users may view the package catalogue entry at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html
> or they may browse the package directory at
>   http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/

the catalogue entry will be updated on the web, overnight tonight ...
but there's not much change to see.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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