Friday, April 8, 2011

Upright SI units and greek letters

According to standards SI units such as for example micro-amperes should be made upright and not italic. Unfortunately lyx not  offers a standard solution for upright Greek letters. Therefore, one needs to use the special SI unit package: http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx that should already be available in your miktex distribution. Here are the steps to use it inside lyx:

step 1)  include the package into your master document preambule
step 2)  insert the latex code \SI{10}{\micro \ampere} inside your document

Here are the steps in image, with the final result:

1 comment:

  1. I installed the package using MiKteX package manager, and I am using LyX editor. I did insert the code as you said. It is giving me an error: undefined sequence.

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