Am Donnerstag, 20. Juli 2006 23:58 schrieb Patrick Lam:
> Hi all,
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> Forgive me for the newbie questions.  I am working on a table with
> columns aligned by decimal place.  When I do that, two things happen:
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> 1)       I have certain rows that I don’t want aligned by decimal.  I
> used the multicolumn option, which is fine except that the
> non-decimal rows are now aligned with the decimal places as the
> center.  However, most of my data is heavy toward the right of the
> decimal (i.e. .0007, .095, .0634, etc.)  Is there a way to align the
> columns so that the decimal places are aligned but the decimal place
> is not necessarily the center?  (e.g. I want the whole value to be
> centered so .012345 would be centered at between 2 and 3 instead of
> at the decimal.

One possible solution might be to add "phantom" digits so that all 
numbers are equally wide. To do this use the \phantom{} command, i.e. 
write .0007\phantom{00}, .095\phantom{000}, etc.

Regards,
Ingo

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