Re: setting output precision

["Karim Belabas" <belabas@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

* Bill Allombert [2005-09-28 10:37]:
> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 07:59:39PM +0200, Karim Belabas wrote:
> > * Bill Allombert [2005-09-27 19:02]:
> > > The only problem I see is that you need to set it _after_ realprecision
> > > which seems strange.
> > 
> > This is the historical behaviour, unfortunately not really documented:
> > * changing 'realprecision' automatically updates the (maximal) number of
> > significant digits printed to current 'realprecision'.
> > 
> > * changing 'format' doesn't affect 'realprecision'.
> > 
> > The apparent idea is that one should always print as many digits as are
> > available. Trivial to change, but...
> 
> If you fear of breaking old behaviour, we could have format default to
> 'automatic' (where it depends on realprecision) When the user set it
> to something, it go to manual mode and is not affected by realprecision
> anymore.  One way to denote 'automatic' mode could be to use a format
> string of "g" or "f" instead of "g0.28" or "f0.28", etc (I hope I make
> sense).

We'll try this in version 2.4.0 ...

> By the way, ??format with -detex has a display glitch : "and64-bit"
> which is not in the TeX source.

Fixed in CVS.

Thanks!

    Karim.
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