Way to represent uncertainty strings with parentheses for uncertainties

[GoodStuff11]

I noticed that in the package you can use measurement to convert " -123.4(56) " into -123.4 ± 5.6. But is there a way to take the Measurement object and output a string formatted with parentheses to denote uncertainties like "-123.4(56)".

Ideally, it would be of the form
repr("text/something", -123.4 ± 5.6) ≈ "-123.4(56)"

[giordano]

What MIME would you use it with? The nice thing of the -123.4 ± 5.6 representation is that that's valid Julia code, but -123.4(56) wouldn't.

[GoodStuff11]

While -123.4 ± 5.6 is a very practical representation for code, it would be useful for me to allow for converting it to a string format like "-123.4(56)" since that's the form I want to be pasting into my Latex document.

I imagine it could have a MIME like text/x-plain or text/unc-p, though I'm no expert at naming these things.

[giordano]

Ok, yeah, you can define a custom MIME, like we do for text/latex and text/x-latex:

Measurements.jl/src/show.jl

Lines 52 to 62 in 833064e

	function Base.show(io::IO, ::MIME"text/latex", measure::Measurement)
	error_digits = get(io, :error_digits, 2)
	truncated_print(io, measure, error_digits, atbeg = "\$", atend = "\$", pm = "\\pm")
	end
	for mime in (MIME"text/x-tex", MIME"text/x-latex")
	function Base.show(io::IO, ::mime, measure::Measurement)
	error_digits = get(io, :error_digits, 2)
	truncated_print(io, measure, error_digits, pm = "\\pm")
	end
	end