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When using \SIrange[tophrase=dash] to specify a range of numbers with units, the range phrase is literally specified as dash.

The following MWE yields 10 mdash20 m as an output.

MWE:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{per=slash, load=abbr}

\begin{document}

\SIrange[tophrase=dash]{10}{20}{\metre}

\end{document}

Whats going on here? Where should I be looking?

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Use it with tophrase={--}. But as the documentation says it can be confused with a subtraction operation so better to use to instead to specify a range:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{siunitx}
\sisetup{per=slash, load=abbr}

\begin{document}

\SIrange[tophrase={--}]{10}{20}{\metre}

\SIrange[tophrase={~to~}]{10}{20}{\metre}

\end{document}
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My apologies for taking so long to reply. Your answer works well. Thanks! What I still don't get is why the method suggested in the siunitx documentation fails to work. – Ricardo Mar 9 '12 at 4:38
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@Ricardo: Don't know. Perhaps you have an old version of the documentation? – Peter Grill Mar 9 '12 at 4:44
That was it. I had a very old version of the documentation. Thanks for pointing it out. – Ricardo Mar 9 '12 at 4:48

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