Folks,
last changes to number formatting in luatex makes things somewhat
confusing. Please consider the following.
\directlua{
local floor = math.floor
local round = function(n) return floor(10000*n+0.5)/10000 end
n = math.pi
% generic round doesn't work anymore,
print()
io.write(round(n))
% but explicit conversion to string helps
print()
io.write(round(n).."")
% now lets take more pleasant n
n = 100.4
% now the explicit conversion to string doesn't help either
print()
print(round(n))
% same with pdf.print, tex.write
pdf.print(round(n))
tex.write(round(n))
}?\end
This is hardly controlable, as the same operations gives completelly
different results for n=10.4 and n=100.4. Obviously much depends on
internal representation of the number, but one never had to bother before.
The reason I'm concerned is that string.format() function allows only
fixed decimal digits "%.<n>f" or fixed all the digits "%.<n>g". And what
is actually needed in most cases is "round to <n> digits and omit extra
zeros at the end". That is why I tend to use floor(scale*n+0.5)/scale
for rounding, which is not a good solution any longer.
Can one advice how to write rounded numbers without extra zeros?
Thanks, Paweł
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Pawe/l Jackowski
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