m1swd00@fed.frb.gov (Sean W. Doyle) (04/05/89)
Two LaTeX table formatting questions:
1. Is there an easy way to format numbers in a table aligned vertically
by decimal point?
2. Can numbers be easily `rounded' in LaTeX?
In some ways I'm looking for a format command similar to (forgive me!) FORTRAN.
For example, how would I print a table of the following sort:
1.234 1.2345 1.2
.323 .7890 .1
-2.009 .0902 .3
Thanks!
Sean Doyle
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Washington, DC 20551 (202) 452-2352
uucp: uunet!fed!m1swd00 , internet: sdoyle@fed.frb.govakk2@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Atul Kacker) (04/07/89)
In article <412@mqws2.fed.FRB.GOV> m1swd00@fed.frb.gov (Sean W. Doyle) writes: > >Two LaTeX table formatting questions: > >1. Is there an easy way to format numbers in a table aligned vertically > by decimal point? > >For example, how would I print a table of the following sort: > > 1.234 1.2345 1.2 > .323 .7890 .1 > -2.009 .0902 .3 > I'm sure there are other ways to do it, but what I ended up using in my thesis, was a combination of "tables" macro (available from the latex-style collection at sun.soe.clarkson.edu) and the following kludge from The TeXbook (p.241). Basically what you do is to take a character (? in this case) and make it active and then use it to manually align decimal points. Crude, but hey, it works. ---------------------------- \documentstyle[tables]{report} \begin{document} % ------------ kludge for aligning decimal points \newdimen\digitwidth \setbox0=\hbox{\rm0} \digitwidth=\wd0 \catcode`?=\active \def?{\kern\digitwidth} % ----------- use the table environment in LaTeX \begin{table}[p] \begintable % the begintable and endtable are for the tables macros 339.1 | 275.4 | 1220 | ?0.67 | 23.0 | 0.19 | 292.2 | 3.76 \cr 339.8 | 274.6 | 1190 | ?3.10 | 23.0 | 0.19 | 292.1 | 3.85 \cr 347.1 | 277.0 | 1150 | 20.75 | 22.9 | 0.22 | 298.4 | 3.53 \cr 348.3 | 276.1 | 1150 | 28.20 | 22.9 | 0.23 | 299.1 | 3.51 \cr 352.9 | 291.8 | 1160 | ?0.24 | 22.0 | 0.18 | 308.9 | 2.95 \cr 357.4 | 287.1 | 1160 | 19.90 | 23.0 | 0.22 | 309.4 | 3.11 \endtable \end{table} \end{document} ----------------------------------