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Type |
Typesetting Rules |
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Coverage |
Limited / Focuses on the SI units and provides rules to create complex units |
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Hosted by |
Joseph Wright |
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Homepage |
siunitx is free at |
The siunitx package is a set of tools for the software system LaTeX. It is used to typeset pysical quantities from the SI. The package has an extended set of configuration options which make it possible to follow varying typographic conventions with the same input syntax.
Unit examples:
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LATEX_SIUNITX code |
Symbol |
Name |
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\unit{m} |
m |
metre |
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\unit{\centi\meter} |
cm |
centimetre |
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\unit{\nauticalmile} |
n mile |
nautical mile |
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\unit{\ångström} |
Å |
angstrom |
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\unit{\micro\meter\per\kelvin} |
µm/K |
micrometre per kelvin |
Bibliography
UCUM: Unified Code for Units of Measure https://ucum.org
QUDT: Quantities, Units, Dimensions and Data Types Ontologies https://qudt.org https://github.com/qudt/qudt-public-repo
UNECE: Recommendation N° 20, Codes for Units of Measure Used in International Trade https://unece.org/trade/cefact/UNLOCODE-Download
IEC CDD: IEC Common Data Dictionary https://cdd.iec.ch/
LATEX_SIUNITX: A comprehensive (si) units package https://ctan.org/pkg/siunitx https://www.texdev.net/
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