[Tex/LaTex] alignment of table numbers

horizontal alignmentsiunitxtables

why the numbers indicated from the arrows are not aligned compared to the columns above ?

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\documentclass[border=10.0mm]{standalone}

\usepackage{booktabs,caption}

\usepackage{siunitx}

\sisetup{%
         output-decimal-marker={,}%
        }



\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{*{4}{S}}
\toprule
{Distanza} & {$p$-$q$} & {$f$}  & {$f$} \\
{(mm)}     & {(mm)}    & {(mm)} & {(\%)} \\
\midrule
200        & 100       & 193,5  & 96,7 \\
           & 660       & 197,0  & 98,0 \\
           & 592       & 195,3  & 97,7 \\
\cmidrule(rl){1-4}
150        & 320       & 144    & 96 \\
           & 424       & 147    & 98 \\
           & 150       & 144    & 96 \\
\cmidrule(rl){1-4}
100        & 940       & 100    & 100,0 \\
           & 884       & 974    & 97,4 \\
           & 292       & 955    & 95,5 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Best Answer

The standard settings for siunitx centre the decimal marker, but if there is no decimal marker at all in some numbers you will get a slight offset. The recommended method for using siunitx is to set the table-format appropriately for each table

\sisetup{table-format = 3.1}

as this allows the package to revise the correct space and also deals with numbers without decimal markers.

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I would probably set the table setup like this:

\sisetup{
  input-symbols         = (),
  table-format          = -1.5,
  table-space-text-post = ***,
  table-align-text-post = false,
  group-digits          = false
}

Setting the *** as text and add a proper table-format (a sign, one digit before the decimal point, 5 after it (counting the closing brace, too)) should get the spacing between the columns right. The option table-align-text-post = false shifts the *** next to the numbers.

In your example the *** and the minus in the column to the right nearly seem to touch each other and in the last columns the *** protrude the table lines.

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Full example:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}

\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amsmath,array}
\usepackage[detect-all]{siunitx}
\usepackage[margin=1 in]{geometry}
\usepackage{booktabs, longtable}
\usepackage[english]{babel}

\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htbp]
\footnotesize\centering
\sisetup{
  input-symbols         = (),
  table-format          = -1.5,
  table-space-text-post = ***,
  table-align-text-post = false,
  group-digits          = false
} 
\begin{tabular}{lSSSSSS}
 \toprule
  & {\bfseries(A)} & {\bfseries(B)} & {\bfseries(C)} & {\bfseries(D)}  & {\bfseries(E)}  & {\bfseries(F)} \\
 \hline \midrule
  & 0.0016*** & 0.0013*** & 0.0015*** & 0.0015***  & 0.0009**   & 0.0009** \\
  & (0.0005)  & (0.0005)  & (0.0006)  & (0.0006)   & (0.0004)   & (0.0005) \\
  &           &           &           & 0.1324***  & 0.1202***  & 0.1203*** \\
  &           &           &           & (0.0131)   & (0.0118)   & (0.0118) \\
  &           &           &           & -0.0549*** & -0.0569*** & -0.0569*** \\
  &           &           &           & (0.0023)   & (0.0024)   & (0.0024) \\
 \hline \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] Alignment of table header in column with decimal numbers using siunitx

You can align to the right by using multicolumn:

\documentclass[ngerman]{scrbook}
\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{l S[table-format=3.4]}
    \textbf{fruit} & \multicolumn{1}{r}{\textbf{\%}} \\         %  
    apple   & 12,34 \\
    banana  & ,1 \\
    cherry  & 1,2345 \\
    coconut & 100 \\
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

I have changed S[table-format=3.2] to S[table-format=3.4] so as to compensate for the entry in cherry..

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