josephwright / josephwright/siunitx
Exponent notation also in e-mode, not only power mode
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Description
Would be great to have possibility to display exponent in e-notation, like 4.15e-15 eV s.
Currently option exponent-mode has values: input,fixed,engineering,scientific,threshold and each of them (beside fixed I think) could be displayed with e-mode, so I wouldn't add e-mode there.
One could add exponent-e-mode option of bolean type (default: false) to change from power to e-mode.
Reasoning: sometimes one to display numbers which can be easily copy-paste to number processing tools, like spreadsheet, programming code, data files. Power mode doesn't work here great.
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No files or tests are named. Start by tracing the existing exponent-mode option and its input, fixed, engineering, scientific, and threshold behaviors; define how a boolean e-mode setting should affect each applicable mode. Done means supported exponent displays can emit copy-pastable e-notation while preserving existing power-mode output by default.
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- Tech stack
- latex, tex
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- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
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- Over a week
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- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 35/100