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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: a few suggestions for org-mode table
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:14:57 +0200
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On Jun 19, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Michael Brand wrote:
>
> 2) One could like to have configurable left/right alignment, even  
> combinable with column width, e. g.
>
> | <l10>      | <r>       |
> | 3.14       |      0x10 |
> | 3.141592=> | 0x32 0x10 |

This is now implemented, thanks for the nice idea.

>
>
> 3) One could like to have decimal point alignment
>
> |   432.10 |
> | 5'432.1  |


Implementing this into the current system would be significant work.
As an alternative, try a formula to that maps a column onto itself,
with a format specifier:

$2=$2;f.3

or something like this..............

- Carsten