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,
>