Ah, I had my pdf viewer at too low a magnification and missed that m . Very weird. I wonder if it has anything to do with the two cells in "base year"? So far my experiments have not been useful so I may well be wrong
Re the 2 vs 3 digits, I am not sure but I suspect that using 2 & 3 digits in the same column is bad practice. Why is 1939 considered more accuate than the other years? On 6 June 2016 at 09:24, F M Salter <fmsal...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 06/06/16 13:54, John Kane wrote: > > I don't think I understand the point about the "m". It is a math symbol > in the lyx file so one would expect it to be one in the output? > > Sorry, I was obviously too terse. An additional *m* appears in the 3rd > column under the fraction > > > I am not very good with LyX tables (I usually generate mine with R and > knitr) but it looks to me that you need three numbers after the decimal in > the last column of the table. Try sticking zeros after the values with only > 2 numbers (characters?) and you get decimal alignment. > > The reason I need the decimal alignment is that I do not to suggest an > undeserved precision to the othere numbers in the column. > > > On 6 June 2016 at 06:57, F M Salter <fmsal...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> Hi >> I am attaching a small table which produces erroneous output. >> >> 1. mathematical symbol m in headings >> 2. non-alignment of decimal points >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> Regards >> Frank Salter >> > > > > -- > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada > > Thanks for your comments > Regards FMS > -- John Kane Kingston ON Canada