I am using the dcolumn
package to align cell contents at the decimal seperator. Now in the table header I have a textual description of the column, for example like this:
\begin{tabular}{c|d{4.3}}
field & \multicolumn{1}{c}{description} \\
\hline
a & 0.55 \\
b & 1223.4
\end{tabular}
As you can see I had to wrap this text in multicolumn
to make LaTeX happy which somehow is a hack. Is there a more elegant way? Especially for many columns this gets a little cumbersome.
Best Answer
It's not a hack, it is the correct approach. The
dcolumn
package works by inserting appropriate code before and after the cell contents to make the alignment work. Using\multicolumn
skips insertion of the alignment code, which is exactly what you want.You could use my
siunitx
package to do the alignment without using\multicolumn
, but it might be overkill for this case: