[MiKTeX] help with tabling (dcolumn)

[Daniel Cooper]

I am using the dcolumn package to align the decimal points in my
table. I want to highlight a couple of the cells in the table either
by changing the font color or using a red ellipse.

The issue seems to be that the dcolumn package can't deal with a
decimal inside another command that requires {} unless it is
\multicolumn. For example it gets hung up on

\color{red}{0.05}

as an entry in the tabling structure.

Any suggestions on how to get around this issue would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Daniel

[Smith, Stephen]

Daniel:

Did you get an answer on this one?

I have run into the same sort of problem and have opted to change the
column where the colour is being used from d{} to c.

Stephen

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Cooper [mailto:***@umich.edu]
Sent: December 11, 2008 10:02 PM
To: miktex-***@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [MiKTeX] help with tabling (dcolumn)

I am using the dcolumn package to align the decimal points in my table.
I want to highlight a couple of the cells in the table either by
changing the font color or using a red ellipse.

The issue seems to be that the dcolumn package can't deal with a decimal
inside another command that requires {} unless it is \multicolumn. For
example it gets hung up on

\color{red}{0.05}

as an entry in the tabling structure.

Any suggestions on how to get around this issue would be much
appreciated.

Thanks,
Daniel

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[Daniel Cooper]

I did get a reply but it didn't work the way I wanted.

I have done something similar to you and worked around the problem as
best I can. Since only a couple of numbers in my tables have color I
align the decimal and then use the \multicolumn command for the few
numbers I want in color... I then line up these numbers manually using
\hspace. It is not ideal but it works well enough for now.

Daniel

Post by Smith, Stephen
Did you get an answer on this one?
I have run into the same sort of problem and have opted to change the
column where the colour is being used from d{} to c.
Stephen
-----Original Message-----
Sent: December 11, 2008 10:02 PM
Subject: [MiKTeX] help with tabling (dcolumn)
I am using the dcolumn package to align the decimal points in my table.
I want to highlight a couple of the cells in the table either by
changing the font color or using a red ellipse.
The issue seems to be that the dcolumn package can't deal with a decimal
inside another command that requires {} unless it is \multicolumn. For
example it gets hung up on
\color{red}{0.05}
as an entry in the tabling structure.
Any suggestions on how to get around this issue would be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
Daniel
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[Ulrike Fischer]

Post by Smith, Stephen
Did you get an answer on this one?
I have run into the same sort of problem and have opted to change the
column where the colour is being used from d{} to c.

This is not a miktex specific question. So it is better to ask e.g.
on comp.text.tex. You should also make a small, complete example that
demonstrates the problem so that people can test solutions.