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@Section
@Title { Aligned columns }
@Tag { tbl_alig }
@Begin
@PP
Columns of numbers are often presented with decimal points aligned:
aligned.columns @Index { aligned columns in tables }
@CD @OneRow @Tbl
marginvertical { 0.5vx }
aformat { @Cell A }
{
@Rowa A { 5^.46 } marginabove { 0i }
@Rowa A { 3^.4159 }
@Rowa A { 5772^ } marginbelow { 0i }
}
You can produce this by placing a @Code "^" symbol, which is used
generally throughout Lout for alignment, just before the alignment point in
each entry:
@ID @OneRow @Code @Verbatim {
@Tbl
marginvertical { 0.5vx }
aformat { @Cell A }
{
@Rowa A { 5^.46 }
@Rowa A { 3^.4159 }
@Rowa A { 5772^ }
}
}
The equals signs of equations can be aligned in the same way (see the
example at the start of this chapter). Aligned cells should have no
@Code indent option.
@PP
Owing to problems behind the scenes, getting a heading over the top
of an aligned column is a problem with no ideal solution. What most
people want is for the heading to be centred in the column, and the
aligned entries to be centred in the column as a block, but Lout cannot
do this. One approximation is to make the heading cell a spanning
cell with centring, like this:
@FootNote { Lout does not currently accept single-column tables
with {@Code "@StartHSpan"}, so we've had to add
an empty second column. }
@ID @OneRow @Code @Verbatim {
@Tbl
marginvertical { 0.5vx }
aformat { @StartHSpan @Cell indent { ctr } @B A | }
bformat { @Cell A | }
{
@Rowa A { Heading }
@Rowb A { 5^.46 }
@Rowb A { 3^.4159 }
@Rowb A { 5772^ }
}
}
The spanning frees the heading from alignment, permitting
@Code "indent { ctr }" to work:
@CD @OneRow @Tbl
marginvertical { 0.5vx }
aformat { @StartHSpan @Cell indent { ctr } @B A | }
bformat { @Cell A | }
{
@Rowa A { Heading } marginabove { 0i }
@Rowb A { 5^.46 }
@Rowb A { 3^.4159 }
@Rowb A { 5772^ } marginbelow { 0i }
}
But if the heading cell is wider than the aligned cells, you get this:
@CD @OneRow @Tbl
marginvertical { 0.5vx }
aformat { @StartHSpan @Cell indent { ctr } @B A | }
bformat { @Cell A | }
{
@Rowa A { A Wider Heading } marginabove { 0i }
@Rowb A { 5^.46 }
@Rowb A { 3^.4159 }
@Rowb A { 5772^ } marginbelow { 0i }
}
In other words, this will centre a heading with respect
to aligned entries, but it will not centre aligned entries with
respect to a heading. In these cases you could forget about
@Code "@StartHSpan" and treat the heading as an aligned entry,
either by placing a @Code "^" within it or by using
@ID @Code "@Cell 0.5w @HShift A"
which places the alignment point in the centre of the entry.
#@CD @OneRow @Tbl
# marginvertical { 0.5vx }
# aformat { @Cell 0.5w @HShift @B A }
# bformat { @Cell A }
#{
#@Rowa A { A Wider Heading } marginabove { 0i }
#@Rowb A { 5^.46 }
#@Rowb A { 3^.4159 }
#@Rowb A { 5772^ } marginbelow { 0i }
#}
You can move the alignment point about by changing the 0.5. Of course,
all this is a poor substitute for the real thing.
@End @Section
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