Re: Tables - decimal comma alignment

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 07:22 PM 1/23/2002 +0100, Lukas Kubin wrote:
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>Where do I find more info about setting up tables in ConTeXt? I am
>using the cont-eni.pdf from ntg.nl/context but there is not much
>info about tables in it.

actually, this chapter is laying on my desk for editing -)

>Especially I need decimal comma alignment. I have a table with four
>columns of real numbers. The number of decimal places is fixed (4) but the
>part before it is variable (let's say 1 to 3 places). How do I typeset
>such table?
>What if the number of decimal places was variable too?
>Thank you.

the n N (period) and q Q (comma) keys do this

%D \starttabel{|q[00,000]|Q[00,00]|}
%D \HL
%D \VL -1,2   \VL 12,35 \VL\FR
%D \VL 11,203 \VL  2,4  \VL\LR
%D \HL
%D \stoptabel

[thrd-tab has more info on keys as well as core-tab]

Hans

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