Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ siunitx | Dollar Sign in Table

[josephwright]

That depends on what you mean by 'in TeX Live 2011'! It was not in the version of siunitx that was in the DVD release of TeX Live this year, but it is available using tlmgr.

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tlmgr update --self --all

at the Command Line/Terminal will grab all updates available for TeX Live. There is a GUI interface for the same thing installed on Windows by default.

[UniquarkJ]

Yes, I figured that out after I wrote that. I ran the updates and it is now working the way you said it would. I will say though, that I was dismayed by how many other things in siunitx were broken by the update. I had to spend about an hour fixing everything after the update. I hope that my client will be able to update to the latest version.

[josephwright]

I've not had many bug reports for siunitx versions between that in the TeX Live 2011 DVD release and the latest one (v2.4). I'd appreciate knowing what problems you've had.

[UniquarkJ]

I'm sorry, but I don't recall the details and I don't have a lot of time to reconstruct them. I'm working on a project from hell with hundreds of tables, all using siunitx. One problem I do recall had to do with parentheses. There were many tables with standard errors in parentheses. they worked fine before I upgraded, but the leading parenthesis was overlapping the first digit of the number after I upgraded.

For what it's worth, I don't understand this prohibition against having characters other than digits in a "number". The instances where one would want to do this (currency symbols, standard errors in parentheses, significance stars, etc.) are almost limitless. It would make much more sense to me to parse the number and allow the other symbols to fall tight up against the number (without overlapping of course) the way they do in the input stream.