josephwright / josephwright/siunitx
Option to retain leading zeros
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enhancement
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- TeX
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Description
As described in https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/702619/siunitx-keep-leading-zeroes-while-parse-numbers-true/, some people might want to retain a variable number of non-significant digits.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the linked TeX Stack Exchange discussion to understand the requested behavior for variable numbers of non-significant digits. Then locate siunitx's number-parsing entry point and existing tests; done means defining and verifying an option that retains leading zeros without changing default parsing.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- latex
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100