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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-12-12 23:01:08 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2011-12-12 23:01:08 +0000 |
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parent | 245b56435780f276458532bdd3e7001c85d0060c (diff) |
siunitx (12dec11)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/siunitx/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/siunitx/README index 4f35f3d0659..55fde396829 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/siunitx/README +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/siunitx/README @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ E-mail: joseph.wright@morningstar2.co.uk Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------- + Physical quantities have both numbers and units, and each physical quantity should be expressed as the product of a number and a unit. Typesetting physical quantities requires care to @@ -20,8 +21,10 @@ to follow varying typographic conventions with the same input syntax. The package includes automated processing of numbers and units, and the ability to control tabular alignment of numbers. + Installation ------------ + The package is supplied in dtx format and as a pre-extracted zip file, siunitx.tds.zip. The later is most convenient for most users: simply unzip this in your local texmf directory and run @@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ texhash to update the database of file locations. If you want to unpack the dtx yourself, running "tex siunitx.dtx" will extract the package whereas "latex siunitx.dtx" will extract it and also typeset the documentation. + The package requires LaTeX3 support as provided in the l3kernel and l3packages bundles. Both of these are available on CTAN (http://www.ctan.org/) as ready-to-install zip files. Suitable @@ -36,6 +40,7 @@ versions are available in MiKTeX 2.9 and TeX Live 2011 (updating the relevant packages online may be necessary). LaTeX3, and so siunitx, requires the e-TeX extensions: these are available on all modern TeX systems. + Typesetting the documentation requires a number of packages in addition to those needed to use the package. This is mainly because of the number of demonstration items included in the |