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Re: Fwd: correction to: more than 1.5 hrs of trying: Grid

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• Subject: [mg80885] Re: [mg80830] Fwd: correction to: more than 1.5 hrs of trying: Grid
• From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
• Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 02:42:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Chris Chiasson wrote:

>I have tested so many examples that I sent in the wrong ones:
>
>The two examples (which still don't work) should (probably) have been:
>tab={{1,1,1,1000},{2,2,2000,2},{3,3000,3,3},{4000,4,4,4}}
>Grid[tab,Alignment->{Baseline,{Center,Center,{Right}}}]
>Grid[tab,Alignment->{Automatic,{{Right},1->Center,2->Center}}]
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>
One simple approach is to use Item:

tab = {Item[#,Alignment->Center]&/@{1,1,1,1000}, 
Item[#,Alignment->Center]&/@{2,2,2000,2},{3,3000,3,3},{4000,4,4,4}};
Grid[tab, Alignment->Right]

Using just Alignment is also possible:

tab={{1,1,1,1000},{2,2,2000,2},{3,3000,3,3},{4000,4,4,4}};
Grid[tab, Alignment -> {Right, Baseline, {{1, 2}, {1, -1}} -> Center}]

Carl Woll
Wolfram Research

>
>On 8/31/07, Chris Chiasson <chris at chiasson.name> wrote:
>  
>
>>tab={{1,1,1,1000},{2,2,2000,2},{3,3000,3,3},{4000,4,4,4}}
>>
>>Grid[tab, Alignment -> {{Center, Center, Right}, Baseline}]
>>
>>The above command does not work to center the horizontal alignment of
>>the **first two** grid rows, while right aligning the rest, which is
>>what I want to do.
>>
>>
>>The pattern-based structure (as opposed to the optional rule-based
>>one) of the Alignment option is not very clear to me. The only
>>detailed description of pattern based Grid option syntax is given for
>>Background in
>>
>>tutorial/GridsRowsAndColumns
>>
>>. Alignment is a little more complicated because each cell has a
>>top/bottm & left/right alignment instead of a (single Background)
>>color, but I can't find a detailed description of its syntax.
>>
>>
>>I haven't even been able to make it work using the rule based syntax:
>>
>>Grid[tab,
>> Alignment -> {{{Right}, 1 -> Center, 2 -> Center}, Automatic}]
>>
>>The behavior is quite interesting, because the rest of the rows take
>>on the behavior of 1 and 2, even though (I think) I never gave that
>>instruction.
>>
>>
>>Is something wrong with Alignment? Can anyone make the pattern based
>>syntax work? Failing that, what about the rule based syntax?
>>
>>
>>I am even desperate enough to code up a random alignment option test.
>>Mathematica has a nasty habit of crashing (which I do not think is my
>>fault) during the test, but none of the random alignments I have
>>tested do what I want either. Perhaps the code will be useful to
>>others for finding problems with Mathematica:
>>
>>nestRandom[f_, randomIntegerArg_, head_[args__], 1] :=
>>  f @@ Table[
>>    RandomChoice[
>>     Unevaluated@{args}], {RandomInteger@randomIntegerArg}];
>>nestRandom[f_, randomIntegerArg_, head_[args__],
>>  maxIterations : _Integer : 10] :=
>> With[{newMaxIterations = maxIterations - 1},
>>  f @@ Table[
>>    Function[Null, RandomChoice@Unevaluated@{##}, HoldAllComplete] @@
>>     Append[HoldComplete[args],
>>      Unevaluated@
>>       f@nestRandom[f, randomIntegerArg, head[args],
>>         newMaxIterations]], {RandomInteger@randomIntegerArg}]]
>>tab = {{1, 1, 1, 1000}, {2, 2, 2000, 2}, {3, 3000, 3, 3}, {4000, 4, 4,
>>    4}}
>>Table[CellPrint[
>>   ExpressionCell[
>>    With[{alignment =
>>       nestRandom[List, {0, 4}, {Center, Right, Automatic, Baseline},
>>        3]}, {i, Grid[tab, Alignment -> alignment], alignment}],
>>    "Item1Numbered"]], {i, 1000}];
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>http://chris.chiasson.name/
>>
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>>
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  • Fwd: correction to: more than 1.5 hrs of trying: Grid Alignment problem ?
    • From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris@chiasson.name>