table column alignment

table column alignment

[Bruce D'Arcus]

More on tables and such:

Looking through "The Elements of Typographic Style," the author 
recommends tables be aligned on the decimal or flush right.  If there 
is no decimal in an entry using the decimal alignment, in effect such a 
number is aligned as if it had a decimal.  What you get is something 
like:

10
10.2
10.34

I cannot seem to do this in ConTeXt. It seem either all figures must 
have a decimal, or must not.

Bruce

Re: table column alignment

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:50 AM 2/16/2003 -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

>More on tables and such:
>
>Looking through "The Elements of Typographic Style," the author recommends 
>tables be aligned on the decimal or flush right.  If there

i must admit that i still have to read it (btw, it's a nice but quite 
narrow book that, i fear that i have to crack the binding -)

>  is no decimal in an entry using the decimal alignment, in effect such a 
> number is aligned as if it had a decimal.  What you get is something like:
>
>10
>10.2
>10.34
>
>I cannot seem to do this in ConTeXt. It seem either all figures must have 
>a decimal, or must not.


10\\

should do the trick, can you check this?

[more ont his in supp-num [including auto . , swapping and so]

Hans

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Re: table column alignment

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

Hello Hans,

>>  is no decimal in an entry using the decimal alignment, in effect
>> such a number is aligned as if it had a decimal.  What you get is
>> something like:

> 10\\
>
> should do the trick, can you check this?
>
> [more ont his in supp-num [including auto . , swapping and so]

I have tried:

\starttabulate[|mc|]
\NC \digits{100.000,00} \NC\NR
\NC \digits{~10.000,00} \NC\NR
\NC \digits{~~1.100,00} \NC\NR
\NC \digits{~~~~10,~~} \NC\NR
\stoptabulate



Is it possible to put the \digits into the preamble of the tabular?
Say

\starttbaulte[|?{\digits{#1}}|]
\NC 100.000,00 \NC\NR
\NC ~10.000,00 \NC\NR
\NC ~~1.100,00 \NC\NR
\NC  ~~~~10,~~ \NC\NR
\stoptabulate

Patrick