Hi, I added a discussion of dcolumn to Extended as suggested some time ago. I need someone with main CVS access to commit the attached decimal.lyx file to the .../examples directory. Thanks. Mike
#LyX 1.1 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/ \lyxformat 2.16 \textclass article \begin_preamble \usepackage{dcolumn} \newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} \end_preamble \language default \inputencoding latin1 \fontscheme default \graphics default \paperfontsize default \spacing single \papersize Default \paperpackage a4 \use_geometry 0 \use_amsmath 0 \paperorientation portrait \secnumdepth 3 \tocdepth 3 \paragraph_separation indent \defskip medskip \quotes_language english \quotes_times 2 \papercolumns 1 \papersides 1 \paperpagestyle default \layout Title A Better Decimal-Alignment Solution \layout Standard An alternative way to have decimal alignment in tables is through the dcolumn package. Add the following to the LateX preamble: \layout LyX-Code \backslash usepackage{dcolumn} \layout LyX-Code \backslash newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} \layout Standard To have a column decimally aligned, enter in the \family sans Special Column Alignment \family default box of the \family sans Table extra \family default form the following: \layout LyX-Code d{number of decimals of the data} \layout Standard In the following table we entered \family typewriter d{4} \family default : \layout Standard \added_space_top 0.3cm \added_space_bottom 0.3cm \align center \LyXTable multicol5 5 2 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 "" "" 4 1 0 "" "d{4}" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" 1 8 0 1 0 0 0 "" "" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 "" "" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" 0 8 1 0 0 0 0 "" "" Expression \newline Value \newline \begin_inset Formula \( \pi \) \end_inset \newline 3.1416 \newline \begin_inset Formula \( \pi ^{\pi } \) \end_inset \newline 36.462 \newline \begin_inset Formula \( (\pi ^{\pi })^{\pi } \) \end_inset \newline 80663. \newline \begin_inset Formula \( \pi ^{\pi ^{\pi }} \) \end_inset \newline 1.3402e18 \layout Standard To create extra column space just increase the number of decimals in \family typewriter d{} \family default . Setting the multicolumn attribute for a single cell makes it insensitive to the decimal alignment which comes in handy as well. A drawback of this method is that math mode is not allowed in a column with decimal alignment except if the multicolumn attribute is set. \layout Standard This method offers the same flexibility as the \family typewriter dcolumn \family default package. One could, for example, change the alignment separator, and have different alignment separators for different columns by defining multiple column types in the preamble. The syntax is as follows: \layout LyX-Code D{inputsep}{outputsep}{decimal places} \layout Standard The interested reader is directed towards the \family typewriter dcolumn \family default package documentation for more details. \the_end
