LaTeX/C3/Inserting-a-Column/English
Title of the script: Inserting a Column
Authors: Ambika Vanchinathan, Ketki Bhamble
Keywords: latex, siunitx, table formatting, insert column, vertical lines, pipe symbol, video tutorial.
| Visual Cue | Narration |
| Slide 1
Title Slide |
Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Inserting a Column. |
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Learning Objectives |
In this tutorial, we will learn to
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System Requirements |
To record this tutorial, I am using:
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial,
Learners should have basic knowledge of LaTeX. |
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Code Files The following code file is required to practice this tutorial: 1. SIunitx-eg2.tex This file is provided in the Code Files link of this tutorial page. |
The following code file is required to practice this tutorial.
This file is provided in the Code Files link of this tutorial page. |
| Now let us begin. | |
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\usepackage{siunitx} \begin{document} \begin{table} \caption{Standard behaviour of the \texttt{S} column type with a column of text \label{tab:S:standard}} \begin{center} |
This line imports the siunitx package.
These lines show a table with a decimal alignment. |
| Highlight p{5cm}:
\begin{tabular}{l@{}S@{}rp{5cm}} |
This command shows paragraph format.
It shows a fixed width of 5 centimetres for the entries of the fourth column. |
| %\begin{tabular}{|l@{}|S@{}|r|p{5cm}|} | This commented line is used for adding vertical lines.
The | (Pipe) symbols add vertical lines to separate the columns. |
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No. & {Some Values} & Var. & Description\\ |
This command creates a table with four columns:
Number, some Values, var and Description. Description column is for explaining the text. |
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1 & 1 & 1000 & Whole number\\ 2 & 1.0 & 1000 & Number with a decimal point in the second column\\ 3 & 34.2345 & 100 & Number with a decimal point in the second column\\ 4 & -555.12 & & Number with a negative sign and a decimal point\\ |
These commands show the data in the table.
Each row contains four columns separated by & ampersand. |
| Click the green Typeset button. | Now let’s run the code to see the output.
Here is the output of the code. |
| Show the code. | Let’s comment and uncomment the code to see how the output changes. |
| Comment line number 10 and uncomment line number 11
show the output. |
Let us comment line number 10, and uncomment line number 11.
Let’s run the code. The output shows vertical lines to separate the columns. |
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Summary In this tutorial we will learnt to,
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With this we come to the end of this tutorial. Let us summarise. |
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Assignment |
As an Assignment
Change the width of the Description column to 7cm. |
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Thank you |
Thank you for joining. |