i go out for a sociable cup of coffee with a friend, and the daemon creeps in, saying:

The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: siunitx Author's name: Joseph Wright Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/siunitx Summary description: A comprehensive (SI) units package License type: lppl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

v2.1:

• table-align-exponent and table-align-uncertainty options for additional choices of table formatting
• copy-complex-root option for moving input complex root to output
• power-font option for controlling whether superscript powers are treated as numbers or units
• scientific-notation option for to use exponent form for numbers in all cases
• table-omit-exponent option for simplifying tables by removing exponents entirely
• round-INT-to-decimal option to convert integers to decimals on rounding
• input-comparators option for numbers greater than, less than and so on
• table-comparator option for reserving space for comparators in tables
• round-minimum option to set a floor for rounding numbers downward

(whew!)

thanks for the upload; i have installed the new version and updated the catalogue repository.

Users may view the package catalogue entry at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/siunitx.html or they may browse the package directory at http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/siunitx/

the catalogue entry will be updated on the web, overnight tonight ... but there's not much change to see.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team