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The LaTeX-package ``fcolumn'', under LPPL 1.3
In financial reports, text and currency amounts are regularly put in
one table, e.g., a year balance or a profit-and-loss overview.
This package provides the settings for automatically typesetting
such columns, including the sum line (preceded by a rule of the correct
width), using the specifier ``f''.
The column specifier f itself is rather simple. It is the predefined
version of a generic column F. The generic version expects four
arguments: |#1| is the separator, |#2| is the decimal mark, |#3| is
the coding used for grouping digits of the integer part and decimal
part, and #4 is anything added before typesetting the contents of a
column. For example the f-column in the current version of the package
is using 3,2 as #3, meaning that numbers are typeset with 2 decimal
digits and grouping is done on 3 digits. The grouping character is
``.'' and the decimal separator is ``,'', thereby coding for the
continental European standard. People in the Anglo-Saxon world would
rather code |\newcolumntype{f}{F,.{3,2}{}}|.
To show where and how the f-column is used, let's look at a typical
financial table.
properties 31 dec 2014 debts 31 dec 2014
-----------------------------------------------------
house 200.000,00 equity capital 50.000,00
bank account -603,23 mortgage 150.000,00
savings 28.000,00
cash 145,85 profit 27.542,62
---------- ----------
227.542,62 227.542,62
The core part of this table is input as
\begin{tabular}{lflf}
house & 200000 & equity capital & 50000 \\
bank account & -603,23 & mortgage & 150000 \\
savings & 28000 \\
cash & 145,85 & profit & 27542,62 \\
\sumline
\end{tabular}
The column specifier ``f'' (for ``finance'') is able to do the
typesetting. It constructs the sumline, typesets the numbers,
calculates the totals, makes rules of the correct widths, and
checks whether the two columns are in balance; if not, the user
is warned via a message. A special command \resetsumline exists
which allows one to restart a table, so that multiple tables
that are aligned are possible in one tabular environment.
The fcolumn specifier can be used in a tabular environment
and in the longtable environment. Specific fcolumn formatting,
like colour and/or font changes are possible, see the file
fcolumn.pdf.
To install:
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Type ``make install'' or run the file fcolumn.ins through
(La)TeX (in a directory also containing fcolumn.dtx) and move
the resultant file fcolumn.sty to a place searched by TeX.
To generate the documentation:
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Type ``make''. Or run the file fcolumn.dtx through LaTeX,
update the glossary and index by makeindex:
makeindex -s gglo.ist -o fcolumn.gls fcolumn.glo
makeindex -s gind.ist -o fcolumn.ind fcolumn.idx
and then LaTeX fcolumn.dtx again; presto!