With the input
[ n=CV = \SI{3.29e-3}{\micro\mol\per\L} \times \SI{8e-4}{L} = \SI{2.63}{\micro\mol} \]
I get output
As you see the spacing is not quite right - I really want the spacing of the scientific notation to be tighter, the terms 8 \times 10^-6
grouped together so it maintains its distinctness.
Edit: I noticed an arithmetic error; I left out e-06 on the RHS of the equation, but that's beside the point! :P
@aghsmith + @ Joseph Wright: Current accepted solution (2) compared with original (1).
It may be as good as it gets but I still have reservations about reading a page full of these kinds of scientific notations mixed with operators, numbers and units. The different terms meld into each other and it is difficult to discern discrete terms. Aghsmith's solution offers an improvement, but I can't help thinking more could be done with the spacing.
Solution accepted but still open to further suggestions for improvements, assuming I don't have the luxury of omitting or units or using dots for multiplication signs. I have thought about using \quad
to increase the spacing between terms but that is too much manual effort...
\times
, try\cdot
which gives a small dot. – Tom Bombadil Sep 7 '11 at 9:41siunitx
is meant for typesetting units - the request looks more like a calculation, which is unsurprisingly more awkward to handle. In many ways, this is a question more of style than of code. – Joseph Wright♦ Sep 7 '11 at 11:07