[texhax] Aligning decimal point in table using "tabu"

[Christopher Skeels]

Hi Jerry,

Do a search on Excel2latex and see if your life can be improved just a
little.

Cheers, Chris.

On 22/09/2015 2:01 am, "texhax on behalf of Gerard E. Seibert"
<texhax-bounces at tug.org on behalf of jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:12:45 +0200, Ulrike Fischer stated:
>
>> Am Mon, 21 Sep 2015 06:27:22 -0400 schrieb Gerard E. Seibert:
>> 
>> > Thank you. I hate it when the documentation is wrong. I will have to
>>drop
>> > a line to the author/maintainer and see what they can do to correct
>>it.
>> 
>> I doubt that is it only the documentation which is wrong.
>> 
>> > \newcolumntype Z{S[group-four-digits=true ,
>> 
>> does work but then you no longer get "an S column from siunitx
>> embedded into a X column".
>> 
>> Imho tabu is buggy.
>
>I am not very good at creating tables, even simple ones, in LaTeX. I have
>used "tabu" because it lets me set the width of the table easily.
>Honestly,
>when I have a semi-complex table to create, I use MS Excel to create the
>table the way I want it to look, then save it as a PDF and import that
>into
>my document. It may seem like a lot of work; however, when you consider
>how
>much time I end up wasting tying to configure a table to look exactly how
>I
>want it to, it is far quicker to do it in Excel and import it into my
>LaTeX
>document.
>
>-- 
>Jerry
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