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From: C38871CF@WUVMD.BITNET ("Charles H. Franklin")
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Decimal alignment in LaTeX tables
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Date: 27 Apr 91 15:38:39 GMT
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For some considerable time I've been looking for a style that
allows columns of a LaTeX table to be aligned on the decimal
point, rather than left, right, or center.  The need arises all
the time in my work where it is conventional to present parameter
estimates as follows
 
     X1        0.370
  se(X1)      (0.187)
 
etc.
 
I've "solved" the problem with a cnudge command which appends space to
the parameter estimate equal to the width of the ), but this is not
nice, is a pain to add to each parameter estimate, and does not serve in
all cases. (Some editors, for example, want an asterisk next to parameters
twice their standard errors.)
 
So, Once More, I ask if anyone has or knows of a style file which
modifies the ctabular environment to allow for decimal alignment in
addition to the l,r,c alignments which are native to LaTeX.
 
If not, I may have reached the point of trying to create such a style
myself, and if I do, it will NOT be a Pretty Sight. So please, save the
world from the Horror Style from St. Louis.
 
Thanks,
cchf
 
Charles H. Franklin
Washington University
C38871CF@WUVMD.Bitnet