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I am using the agsm bibliography style. This style uses an ampersand in citations in place of the word 'and' before the last author in the author list. This is inappropriate for in-text citations using the \citeasnoun command because it is not correct to use an ampersand in running text. How do I ...

Yeah, I've stumbled on to dcolumn already (by accident mind you). There's also rccol that does a similar job. However they rely on specifying the number of digits in the column specifier in order to allow the right column width; they don't actually solve the general problem I have, which is being ...

Getting there Stefan, although you've fixed my specific example rather than helped out in the general case. For example, you've used tabularx, which is inappropriate because I want the table to be at its natural width (how did you know to use 7cm?) and you've changed the alignment of the table text ...

I want to centre a column heading. I've tried something like:


\begin{tabular}{ll} \hline
\multicolumn{2}{c}{This is some very long text...} \\
Short text & Short text \\ \hline
\end{tabular}


but because the heading is longer than the text underneath it, the heading is not centred as one would ...