Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!network.ucsd.edu!weber.ucsd.edu!nbeck From: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Latex: Lining up decimal points Summary: Is there an easier way Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 21:02:46 GMT Sender: news@network.ucsd.edu Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu I have been creating a lot of tables lately and in my area you have to line up the decimal points. Several suggestions have been posted here lately and they have all been quite useful. The easiest seems to be the l@{.}r formulation in the argument to begin{tabular}. But this is still a pain. Typing .02 as &&2 is something my fingers don't want to do. And if you want an integer you have to use multicolumn. Now troff handles this easily with a d in the declaration. Is there a reason that laTeX can't do this. Is there a style out there that adds a d to the tabular argument? As always, thanks in advance Neal Neal Beck Dept of Politcal Science, UCSD beck@ucsd.edu Dislaimer: The Regents pay me (a bit!) to distribute my opinions.