Re: Latex formatting - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Latex formatting
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Msg-id 20121016182940.GD7480@momjian.us
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In response to Latex formatting  (Peter Wintoft <peter@lund.irf.se>)
Responses Re: Latex formatting
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 07:47:37PM +0200, Peter Wintoft wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am quite new to Postgresql, but I have used MySQL quite a lot. But
> now I'm thinking of switching for several different reasons, and one
> of them is that I found that you can get output formatted as a Latex
> table. Excellent.
>
> Now to my question: Is it possible to get decimal numbers in
> scientific notation, so that e.g. 0.052 becomes $5.2 \cdot 10^{-2}$ ?

Uh, well, our Latex output hasn't been improved in quite some time, but
we are willing to accept patches to improve it.  Someone previously was
working on making the table output more flexible, but never submitted a
patch.

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