Re: PaddedForm-like behavior for GridBox[]
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- Subject: [mg63394] Re: PaddedForm-like behavior for GridBox[]
- From: albert <awnl at arcor.de>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 02:57:26 -0500 (EST)
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Steven T. Hatton wrote:
> There must be a connection I'm not making. It seems as if half the
> functionality a person would want for printing nicely formatted
> tables/grids is in TableForm[], and the other half is in GridBox[]. To
> get them to work together seems nontrivial.
>
> Is there a good source on how to use these features? I'm actually very
> surprised at the apparent limitations of Mathematica regarding the
> fromatting of output. All the pieces are here, but they don't seem well
> integrated.
Maybe there are other possibilities, but whatever they are they are not
obvious and I also have often missed to be able to specify some of the
GridBox Options within TableForm. My guess is that this has historical
reasons. After all there are no gridlines available on text-only-frontends,
and TableForm seems to have existed even before the notebook-frontends were
there...
Anyway, as usual, there are workarounds, e.g.:
DisplayForm[ToBoxes[TableForm[{{a, b}, {c, d}},
TableHeadings -> {{"row1", "row2"}, {"col1", "col2"}}]] /.
GridBox[l_, o___] :> GridBox[l,
RowLines -> True,
ColumnLines -> 4,
GridFrame -> 2,
o
]]
of which you could make a function, probably using the FilterOption-Package
to sort out which options go where. Be aware that the GridBox-Options will
be ignored on a text only frontend...
hth
albert