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@@ -21,9 +21,40 @@ syntax. The package includes automated processing of numbers
and units, and the ability to control tabular alignment of
numbers.
-A number of LaTeX packages have been developed in the past for
-formatting units: SIunits, sistyle, unitsdef, units, fancyunits
-and fancynum. Support for users of all of these packages is
-available as emulation modules in siunitx. In addition, siunitx
-can carry out many of the functions of the dcolumn, rccol and
-numprint packages
+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
+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 expl3
+and xpackages bundles. Both of these are available on CTAN
+(http://www.ctan.org/) as ready-to-install zip files. Suitable
+versions are available in MiKTeX 2.8 and TeX Live 2009
+(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
+text. To compile the documentation without error, you will
+need the packages:
+ - amsmath
+ - booktabs
+ - caption
+ - cleveref
+ - csquotes
+ - datatool
+ - helvet
+ - mathpazo
+ - listings
+ - pgfplots
+ - xcolor
+The xfrac package is also loaded if available, but is not
+required to typeset the documentation.