coloring text in a dcolumn aligned cell of a table

Question

I need to color some text red (not color the cell background) in cell in a table to highlight it. The numbers in the column are aligned on the decimal using the dcolumn package. The problem is that

\color{red}{0.044} 

doesn't compile it's saying

} inserted at
\color{red}{0.
044}

and then saying that there is one too many }.

Can anyone help me with this?

Answer 1

You just need to copy the definition of the D type and add colo(u)r:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{color,dcolumn}

\makeatletter
%\newcolumntype{D}[3]{>{\DC@{#1}{#2}{#3}}c<{\DC@end}}

\newcolumntype{E}[4]{>{\color{#1}\DC@{#2}{#3}{#4}}c<{\DC@end}}

\makeatother

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{E{red}..{-1}}
1.2\\
\multicolumn{1}{E{green}..{-1}}{-11.2}\\
1.333\\
\end{tabular}
\end{document}