Tables

[Fletcher T. Penney]

On Dec 3, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Dr. Drang wrote:


> I'm very tempted by Mark Smith's suggestion that any column with

> decimal points should be decimal aligned, but  I'm not sure how that

> would be programmed. I think you'd have to go through the table once

> to make sure that the column is all numbers, then go back through it

> again to put in the appropriate tags.


That's not hard to implement.  I would consider extending the rule to  
any column whose contents consist solely of numbers, with a decimal  
point (or comma for non-US types), optionally with commas( or  
decimals for non-US types), optionally beginning with a (insert  
currency indicator here - which could get messy...)

What about that?


Fletcher

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