Latex¶

class astropy.units.format.Latex(*args, **kwargs)[source]¶

Output LaTeX to display the unit based on IAU style guidelines.

Attempts to follow the IAU Style Manual.

Attributes Summary

Methods Summary

to_string(unit[, fraction])

Convert a unit to its string representation.

Attributes Documentation

Methods Documentation

classmethod to_string(unit, fraction='multiline')[source]¶

Convert a unit to its string representation.

Implementation for to_string.

Parameters:

unitUnitBase

The unit to convert.

fraction{False|True|’inline’|’multiline’}, optional

Options are as follows:

False : display unit bases with negative powers as they are (e.g., km s-1);
‘inline’ or True : use a single-line fraction (e.g., km / s);
‘multiline’ : use a multiline fraction (available for the latex, console and unicode formats only; e.g., $\mathrm{\frac{km}{s}}$ ).

Raises:

Fits

LatexInline