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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enginnering notation in tables exported to LaTeX
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 09:15:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egah99fh.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5705C18A.6040900@grinta.net> (Daniele Nicolodi's message of "Wed, 6 Apr 2016 20:10:18 -0600")

Hello,

Daniele Nicolodi <daniele@grinta.net> writes:

> when exporting to LaTeX, numbers expressed in engineering notation
> contained in tables are transformed into a quite confusing notation:
> 1.234e5 becomes 1.234\,(5) which is rendered by LaTeX as 1.234 (5) with
> the space being a very narrow one. This notation is confusing because it
> is usually used (at l;east in physical sciences) to indicate uncertainty.
>
> I haven't found mention of this in the manual. There is a way to
> disable, or customize this conversion?

See `org-latex-table-scientific-notation'.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-07  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-07  2:10 Enginnering notation in tables exported to LaTeX Daniele Nicolodi
2016-04-07  7:15 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2016-04-07 20:43   ` Daniele Nicolodi

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