[LON-CAPA-users] Help with formatting

Guy Albertelli II lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org
Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:21:48 -0500 (EST)


Hi Felicia,

> I'm trying to help a school teacher format his problem such that it 
> displays like this:
> 
>      4.54
>     34.4
>       .456
> + 123.2
>    -------

Two ideas
<pre>
      4.54
     34.4
       .456
  + 123.2
    -------
</pre>

You can use sprintf to properly format things.

Or

<table>
<tr><td align="right">4</td><td>.</td><td align="left">54</td></tr>
...

You can use perl to divide the number up and display it this way.

Let me know if you need full working code.

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guy@albertelli.com  LON-CAPA Developer  0-7-5-5-