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From: golding@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Andy Golding)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TABLES-- Alligning the decimal points.
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.221417.24115@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 26 Jan 91 22:14:17 GMT
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nqdy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>       I am using LaTeX for making tables. I would like to allign
>the numbers in a column so that the decimal points are alligned
>rather than the number being left/right/center alligned.

This is not the most elegant solution in the world,
but one thing to do is use a `tabular' environment,
and include 2 fields for each number.  The first field
is for the integer portion of the number and is right-aligned,
the second field is for the fractional portion of the number
and is left-aligned.  To avoid having space between the
integer and fraction, in your column specification
at the top of the environment, say `r@{}l'.
Then you specify a number like 17.25 as `17&.25'.

Andy