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Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later
See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt
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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
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syntax. The package includes automated processing of numbers
and units, and the ability to control tabular alignment of
numbers.
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Installation
------------
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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
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unpack the dtx yourself, running "tex siunitx.dtx" will extract
the package whereas "latex siunitx.dtx" will extract it and also
typeset the documentation.
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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
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(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.
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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