lib/examples/decimal.lyx

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  38 A Better Decimal-Alignment Solution
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  41 \begin_layout Standard
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  43 An alternative way to have decimal alignment in tables is through the dcolumn
  44  package.
  45  Add the following to the LateX preamble:
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  64 To have a column decimally aligned, enter in the
  65 \family sans
  66 Special Column Alignment
  67 \family default
  68  box of the
  69 \family sans
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  77 d{number of decimals of the data}
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  82 In the following table we entered
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 232 To create extra column space just increase the number of decimals in
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 236 .
 237  Setting the multicolumn attribute for a single cell makes it insensitive
 238  to the decimal alignment which comes in handy as well.
 239  A drawback of this method is that math mode is not allowed in a column
 240  with decimal alignment except if the multicolumn attribute is set.
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 245 This method offers the same flexibility as the
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 250  One could, for example, change the alignment separator, and have different
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