Text Formatting ⇒ Slanted Font with the caption and siunitx packages

[cbkschroeder]

Hello,

Thanks for reading my posting.

I'm using both the siunitx and caption packages; they are very good.

In the options I set for caption, I'd like to use the slanted "font=sl" font. This uses a slanted font in all my captions and works very well. The problem arises when I need to use a command like

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\SI{5}{\milli\meter}

from siunitx in that caption. The font which is used to typeset this number/unit combination is the same as the font in the rest of the text external to the captions. Using the detect-all=true option of the \SI command doesn't seem to help.

Does anyone have any thoughts as to how one might reasonably easily fix this problem, if, indeed, it is reasonably "fixable"?

Thanks for your time!

[josephwright]

Please post a minimal example, not just a snippet.

[josephwright]

Actually, I can reproduce this. What's happening is that siunitx looks for italic but not for slanted shapes. I need to think about the best interface to deal with this: let me thing about it for a little while.

[josephwright]

Will be fixed in upcoming v2.0o. Test example

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{caption,siunitx}
\captionsetup{font = sl}
\sisetup{detect-all}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
  \caption{Test \SI{5}{\milli\metre}.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

[cbkschroeder]

Yes, your example nails it.

Thanks for being so responsive! I'll ask just so I know when I might see a change: do you know when 2.0o is coming through? Feel free to ignore that question; I'm not being passive aggressive!

Incidentally, if one could have a favorite package, siunitx would definitely be a candidate for me. It's really quite good.

Thanks again.

[josephwright]

Uploaded to CTAN already. There will be a lag in it appearing in TeX Live 2010, as they are currently doing the release work. For MiKTeX, I guess a few days.

[cbkschroeder]

Amazing; thank you so much!!

[localghost]

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[cbkschroeder]

Hi again,

Unfortunately, using your above MWE (and my document) I cannot report that the problem is solved.

I've just run the update wizard for MikTeX and it tells me I have no other updates, so that implies I'm good to go, I guess.

From my siunitx.sty file:

\ProvidesExplPackage {siunitx} {2010/07/21} {2.0o}

From my caption.sty file:

\ProvidesPackage{caption}[2010/01/09 v3.1m Customizing captions (AR)]

Attached is the output from my pdfLaTeX.

If you have any further insights regarding this, I would appreciate them.

Thanks,

Christian

[josephwright]

I will investing further!