Comments on: siunitx: Default mode for printing

By: leo

leo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:58:30 +0000

Thanks

By: Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:55:05 +0000

I should add that

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\setsecheadstyle{\normalfont\raggedright\MakeUppercase}
\sisetup{numprod=xX}
\begin{document}
\section{\num{2×2}}
\end{document}

works fine.

By: Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:49:48 +0000

Hello Leo,

Well, \num doesn’t do anything to the input until it typesets the argument, so I’m not exactly surprised. You see the same thing if you try:

\MakeUppercase{\num{2×2}}

without the section heading business. So I’d this reflects how TeX works, really: you make things upper case before doing the other processing, not after.

Joseph

By: leo

leo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:34 +0000

Sorry to ask here, do you think the error in this example is a bug?

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\setsecheadstyle{\normalfont\raggedright\MakeUppercase}
\begin{document}
\section{\num{2×2}}
\num{2×2}
\end{document}

By: Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:57:35 +0000

Some things have come up in testing. Once I get to the point where a snapshot makes sense, I’ll include some discussion of the question.

By: Fadi Semmo

Fadi Semmo — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:08 +0000

I think it would be a great idea. Thanks for your good work, Joseph. I appreciate it!

By: Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:19:18 +0000

Hello Will,

Yes, that is broadly the idea.

Joseph

By: Will Robertson

Will Robertson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:58:42 +0000

You mean the difference between \textrm and \mathrm, the current behaviour being the latter and the proposed behaviour being the former? I think I agree this would be an improvement, not that I’ve noticed it until now