On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:55 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Günter Lichtenberg <mail@guenterlichtenberg.de> writes:
>
> > I have a document with many automatically generated tables that contain
> > numbers in exponential Format, e.g. 2e09. When I export the tables to
> LaTeX
> > and pdf I get something like 2 (-09) in the pdf, if there is no character
> > after the number in the table
> >
> > Minimal Example:
> > |--------------|
> > | 1.2e09 (abs) |
> > |      2.3e-09 |
> > |       3.4e09 |
> > |--------------|
> >
> > exports to a latex table as
> >
> > \begin{center}
> > \begin{tabular}{r}
> > \hline
> > 1.2e09 (abs)\\
> > 2.3\,(-09)\\
> > 3.4\,(09)\\
> > \hline
> > \end{tabular}
> >
> > Note that in the first line the number is an exponential, the following
> 2 are
> > not. I could not find anything in the documentation. What am I missing?
> >
> > orgmode version is 9.1.4, but the same happens with emacs 25.3 built-in
> > version 8.3.
>
> See `org-latex-table-scientific-notation'. I also find the default value
> a bit surprising. I believe it is what Carsten uses.
>

Hi,

I believe I ended up using this because I wanted something that is not
dependent on having math-mode in the table column.  What I would have
really preferred is "%s\times10^{%s}", but that is less stable because you
need then to know if the column will have math-mode or not.

I agree that it is a bit odd and non-standard - so maybe using nil as
default would be fine.

Carsten


>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>
>