Text Formatting ⇒ number formatting

[mina]

Hi all,

I have been googling this but couldn't find anything.

Is there a way to make LaTeX take care of formatting numbers? For example, if I write 165010621 in my tex file I'd like to see 165,010,621 in my PDF. It's not really a big deal, I can add the commas manually, but I am really curious whether something exists to do it automatically.

I use report class and PDFLaTeX.

Cheers,
Mina

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Mina,

you could use the numprint package.

Stefan

[localghost]

The siunitx package is also a candidate.


Thorsten

[mina]

Hi,

Thank you guys. I tried the numprint packages. An example:

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\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{report}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{numprint}
\begin{document}
\numprint[m^2]{48524378} (\numprint{4.8e-7}, or \numprint[mln]{48.5}) and \numprint[\%]{36.19}. 
\selectlanguage{english}
\numprint[nt]{48524378} (\numprint{4.8e7}, or \numprint[mln]{48.5}) and \numprint[\%]{36.19}.
\npdecimalsign{\ensuremath{\cdot}}
\npthousandsep{,}
\npproductsign{*}
\numprint[nt]{48524378} (\numprint{4.8e7}, or \numprint[mln]{48.5}) and \numprint[\%]{36.19}.
\end{document}

Note that the numbers are in German by default, unless you specify another language using the Babel package and the \selectlanguage command (supports English, German, Portuguese, Dutch and French) or use the autolanguage option. See manual.

Cheers,
Mina