General ⇒ right-justify in table

[bill]

In the attached invoice latex file. I want to right-justify the four "1,000". It that possible with supertabular?

thanks in advance.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Bill,

you could insert \raggedleft, for example:

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\begin{supertabular}{|m{0.8587598in}|m{4.35876in}|>{\raggedleft}
m{0.8587598in}|>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}m{0.9316599in}|}

Stefan

[bill]

Thank you. The invoice looks OK now.

Another question. what is the meaning of the ">" in front of the {ragedgleft group?

regards,

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Bill,

what is the meaning of the ">" in front of the {ragedgleft group?

It inserts the command inside the following braces directly before the entry of the column. You can use it for formatting the entries. For instance if you write >{$}c<{$} instead of c for a tabular environment you will get a column in math mode. It is described by the array package documentation if you want to read further.

Stefan

[bill]

Thank you for pointer. However, for the same invoice, how to make the caption cells (quantity/description/price/amount) to have 10% gray background?

regards,

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Bill,

have a look at the colortbl package, by using that package you can color cells or rows/ columns. I am not sure if its working together with supertabular, but you could try it.

Stefan

[bill]

It seems to study a new package. Need more time to learn.

Tank you.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It's easier to read a package documentation and use the provided features instead of programming it yourself.
There's a lot of packages for many purposes, using them as ready-made solutions usually saves time and gives good results.

Stefan