I am using \usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}
for oldstyle figures and the dcolumn
package to align the contents of tables at their decimal point. The problem is that dcolumn
automatically sets the aligned content in math mode which sometimes results in a strange mixture of oldstyle numbers and lining numbers.
Is there an option to set digits in math mode to oldstyle by default?
Edit: (I hope editing the post is the right way in the local Netiquette to enhance my question).
@Mico I think the siunitx package is the way to go since it allows escaping math mode in tables completely and allows using a different math font in the document. But trying to use siunitx with my tables results in the phenomenon that there is white space for digits in parentheses, when the entry has fewer digits than previous entries (most of my tables are created by the esttab plugin for Stata, by the way). The following MWE illustrates the problem:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\usepackage[osf]{mathpazo}
%SFor Tables created by estout
\def\sym#1{\ifmmode^{#1}\else\(^{#1}\)\fi} %for symbols in Table
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular*}
{\textwidth}{@{\hskip\tabcolsep\extracolsep\fill}l*{2}{S
[mode=text,
table-auto-round,
% table-format=4.3, % how is this supposed to work when we have entry with a different amount of digits?
table-align-text-post=false,
input-open-uncertainty=,
input-close-uncertainty=]
} }
\toprule
\emph{Age} & & \\
\hspace{0.1cm} 18-24& [-1360.228]\sym{*} & -1371.941\sym{*} \\
& (6.915) & (-7.953) \\
\hspace{0.1cm} 25-34& -219.216 & -240.271 \\
& (514.894) & (515.348) \\
\hspace{0.1cm} 35-44& -310.715 & -311.438 \\
& (485.780) & (486.013) \\
\hspace{0.1cm} 55+ & -5.135 & [2.656] \\
& (53.267) & (533.875) \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular*}
\end{document}
\documentclass
and the appropriate packages so that those trying to help don't have to recreate it.mathastext
package (not tested).