[Tex/LaTex] make siunitx commands use serif fonts like the rest of the math in beamer

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In a beamer presentation I can use \usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif} to typeset the math in a serif font while the rest of the presentation is in a sans-serif font. But the \SI command from siunitx appears to typeset its argument as text, which means it follows the text font style, not the math one. Is there a way I can change this so that quantities with units appear with a serif font just like other math, whereas the text is still sans-serif?

\documentclass{beamer}
\usefonttheme[onlymath]{serif}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}
 \begin{frame}
  Text appears in sans-serif font

  $x,2y,3z$ appears in serif font

  $\SI{1}{m}$ appears in sans-serif font, would like it to be serif
 \end{frame}
\end{document}

I've tried things like \sisetup{math-rm=\mathrm, text-rm=\rmfamily} or passing the detect-family option to siunitx, but no luck.

Of course I could just change the font family of the entire document to be serif, but I'd like to know whether I have another option.

Best Answer

siunitx checks if the document font is sanserif using the \AtBeginDocument hook, and adjusts the default if it is. That reflects the fact that in most cases if people set their document all sanserif the desired outcome is that siunitx also uses sanserif.

To reverse this, yo need to alter the settings after siunitx has done its test. That's easiest to do using \AtBeginDocument

\usepackage{siunitx}
\AtBeginDocument{\sisetup{math-rm=\mathrm, text-rm=\rmfamily}}

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[Tex/LaTex] sans serif math in tables and siunitx

With siunitx, there are a couple of potential approaches. First, as Stefan has said you can detect the current font:

\documentclass[paper=a4, fontsize=11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{booktabs,lmodern,siunitx}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\newcolumntype{k}{%
>{$\mathsf\bgroup}l%
<{\egroup$}%
}


\begin{document}
\sffamily

\begin{center}
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  {$\mathsf{a^2}$} & 34.2345 & 34.2345 & 34.2345 \\
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The second approach is to set the font used by siunitx for both text and math mode material to be sanserif

\documentclass[paper=a4, fontsize=11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{booktabs,lmodern,siunitx}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\newcolumntype{k}{%
>{$\mathsf\bgroup}l%
<{\egroup$}%
}


\begin{document}
\sffamily

\begin{center}
  \sisetup{table-format = 2.4, math-rm=\mathsf, text-rm=\sffamily}
  \begin{tabular}{S
  k
  S[table-number-alignment = left]
  S[table-number-alignment = right]}
  \toprule
  {Some Values} & {Some Values} & {Some Values / \si{kg/m^2}} & {Some Values} \\
  \midrule
  2.3456 & 2.3456 & 2.3456 & 2.3456 \\
  {$\mathsf{a^2}$} & 34.2345 & 34.2345 & 34.2345 \\
  56.7835 & 56.7835 & 56.7835 & 56.7835 \\
  \bottomrule
  \end{tabular}
\end{center}

\end{document}

In both cases, I've used table-format = 2.4 as a shortcut to set up the reserved space. This is often easier than doing things piece by piece.

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