Hi Wolfang,
Thank you for your reply. I have indeed not explained my intended result very
clearly.
1.
Primarily, I need to get the two values aligned at the digit separator of the
first and second number respectively and overall at the ± sign. I’m working in
an xtable, where I have entries such as
\startxcell \mpm{14.0==}{_1.5==} \stopxcell
\startxcell \mpm{_0.034}{_0.013} \stopxcell
and defined
\def\mpm#1#2{
\ifsecondargument
\digits{#1}\,±\,\digits{#2}%
\else
\digits{#1}%
\fi
}
Since I was hoping that I could exploit the zeropadding of \digits to get the
format right. Indeed, it would save a lot of typing, if I wouldn’t have to
specify the padding manually and I vaguely recall that there is somewhere a
ConTeXt solution that can make such alignments, but I simply can’t find it any
more …
2. + 3.
Absolutely right, this is my bad. I have badly mixed from Hans’ solution to a
similar problem,
https://www.mail-archive.com/ntg-context@ntg.nl/msg00724.html
which was actually \def\zeroamount{-} and the example in the source, I didn’t
read properly. Just skip that part. :)
4.
Indeed,
\startxcell \mpm{14.==}{_1.5=} \stopxcell
\startxcell \mpm{_0.03}{_0.01} \stopxcell
aligns properly. But sometimes, I have the first digit specified, but not the
second and unfortunately this doesn’t work
\startxcell \mpm{14.5=}{_1.5=} \stopxcell
\startxcell \mpm{_0.03}{_0.01} \stopxcell
because = is not immediately preceded by .
> On 7 May 2020, at 18:21, Wolfgang Schuster
> <wolfgang.schuster.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Benjamin Buchmuller schrieb am 07.05.2020 um 17:31:
>> Hi,
>> I’m trying to get
>> \digits{15.0=}±\digits{1.00}
>> \digits{_8.12}±\digits{0.34}
>> horizontally aligned as
>> 15.0 ±1.00
>> 8.12±0.34
>> But I get
>> 15.0±1.00
>> 8.12±0.34
>> instead.
>> From the source (phys-dim.mkiv), I can see that “=“ should expand to
>> \hphantom{0}. (I think \zeropoint in the table is outdated, since
>> \def\zeropoint\hphantom{0} does not solve the problem either.)
>
> 1. Which table?
>
> 2. This is not how \def works.
>
> 3. When you redefine \zeropoint (which isn't a macro) you're going to break
> everything.
>
>> I can’t use tabulate or alignment in math mode for this problem
>> unfortunately.
>
> I looked at the code and the problem is = can only be used to insert space
> for two digits (e.g. 100.==).
>
> Wolfgang
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