Re: format mixed integers & floats with text styling (see )
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- Subject: [mg82234] Re: format mixed integers & floats with text styling (see )
- From: Urijah Kaplan <uak at sas.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 03:19:51 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Pennsylvania
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If you have MS Vista or Office 2007 (probably some other newer Microsoft products as well) you can use their new monospace font "Consolas", which is actually quite nice. --Urijah Kaplan Murray Eisenberg wrote: > That's what I was afraid of, especially since the monospacing of > LucidaConsole is ugly (to my eyes). > > Jean-Marc Gulliet wrote: >> Murray Eisenberg wrote: >>> Two years ago in I posed this problem of formatting a table column >>> having a mixture of integers and approximate numbers in such a way >>> that the decimal point on the floats would be vertically aligned with >>> the implied decimal on the integers. >>> >>> For example, here's the data for the table: >>> >>> statNames = {"N", "Max", "Min", "Mean", "Std.dev.", "Median"}; >>> statNumbers = {40, 103, 2, 56.8, 22.5, 59}; >>> >>> The object was to combine these into a properly formatted table >>> starting from: >>> >>> (* original table *) >>> TableForm[Transpose[{statNames,statNumbers}]] >>> >>> A good solution was proposed by Valeri Astanoff (sorry, I don't have >>> the message reference number): >>> >>> pad[x_Integer]:=PaddedForm[x,3]; >>> pad[x_Real]:=PaddedForm[x,4]; >>> >>> >>> (* aligned table *) >>> TableForm[Transpose[{statNames, pad /@ statNumbers}]] >>> >>> Now I need to complicate the problem by putting everything in a >>> non-default font, by using, e.g., >>> >>> fmtTxt[txt_]:=Style[txt, FontFamily -> "Arial",FontSize->12] >>> >>> so that the TableForm expression is changed to: >>> >>> (* formatted table *) >>> TableForm[Transpose[{fmtTxt/@statNames, fmtTxt/@ pad /@ statNumbers}]] >>> >>> Unfortunately, this now breaks the nice vertical alignment. How can >>> the alignment of "aligned table" be restored but still use such text >>> formatting? >> You cannot use any font *and* keep the table aligned. To do so, you must >> use monospace fonts such as Courier or LucidaConsole (~~ Monaco on Mac). >> (Arial has glyphs of variable sizes.) So try >> >> fmtTxt[txt_] := >> Style[txt, FontFamily -> "LucidaConsole", FontSize -> 12] >> >> to get the desired result. See it in action on Windows at >> >> http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/mathematica/monospacefont.pdf >> >> The following web site may be useful: >> >> http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html >> >> Regards, >