Hey everyone,

Has there been discussion about adding some sort of SI unit formatting to quartio, similar to what `siunitx` allows for LaTeX?

This sort of thing is quite helpful when working with derived SI units, or prefixes that aren't found on latin keyboards. `siunitx` ([documentation here](https://texdoc.org/serve/siunitx/0)) handles this in LaTeX, and it would be nice to somehow bring this functionality over.

`siunitx` ensures that the units are formatted consistently, with a required nonbreaking space between number and unit. It also has some nice features for things like formatting angles, lists, and ranges. As examples, `\qty{30}{\uA}` is rendered as "30 µA", `\qty{70}{\Mohm\per\um}` as "70 MΩ µm^-1" (with the correct exponent of course), `\ang{180}` as "180°" , or `\qtyrange{0.15}{30}{\MHz}` as "0.15 MHz to 30 MHz. (There are a lot more examples in the PDF documentation linked above).

Something like this would be a very nice fit for Quarto's use in scientific documentation.
2022-08-06T05:55:23Z
tgross35
enhancement
Future
open
Suggestion: Add builtin support for SI unit formatting
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1708