Alignment for MatrixForm
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg37055] Alignment for MatrixForm
- From: Jean-Christophe Deschamps <jch.deschamps at free.fr>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 05:26:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: jcd at q-e-d.org
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Hello,
I look for a way to right align entries output by MatrixForm. There is an ad
hoc option, but I haven't figured out how it is supposed to work in Mathematica 4.0
(if it works at all).
m={{MatrixForm[{0,0,0}],-123456789},{123456789,1}};
MatrixForm[m,TableAlignments->{Right,Top}]
appears identical to
MatrixForm[m] (with no SetOptions override)
Strangely, Mathematica doesn't complain if you input ill options like:
MatrixForm[m,TableAlignments->{WhateverIsIllegal,Right,Top,MakeSomeSpiralOfIt}]
In Mathematica 2.2x, the behavior is rather strange: one option alone works, but
when two are given (e.g. {Right,Top}), only the last seems to be acted upon.
I didn't bother to try hard with the older version, so don't flame me if I'm
wrong.
At the other hand, when a TableAlignments->Right is given to TableForm,
entries are right-aligned correctly.
Can someone provide a way out (even a slow external module) or tell me how
to use this option.
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