Re: [Pgfplots-features] pgfplotstable colomn width

[Christian F. <chr...@ar...>]

Hello Gabor,

The column type of the usual latex tables can be communicated to 
pgfplotstable using the 'column type' option. One example could be

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{array}
\usepackage{colortbl}
\begin{document}
\pgfplotstabletypeset[
	columns/eins/.style={column type={|p{5cm}|}},
	columns/zwei/.style={column type={p{3cm}|}},
	debug, % provide messages at the terminal
]
	{P.dat}
\end{document}

which yields the terminal debug output
------- PGFPLOTSTABLE DEBUG MODE: --------
\begin {tabular}{|p{5cm}|p{3cm}|}%
eins&zwei\\%
\pgfutilensuremath {0}&\pgfutilensuremath {1}\\%
\pgfutilensuremath {2}&\pgfutilensuremath {3}\\%
\pgfutilensuremath {4}&\pgfutilensuremath {5}\\%
\pgfutilensuremath {6}&\pgfutilensuremath {7}\\%
\pgfutilensuremath {8}&\pgfutilensuremath {9}\\%
\pgfutilensuremath {10}&\pgfutilensuremath {11}\\%
\end {tabular}%

and produces the column width 5cm and 3cm, respectively. The datafile is 
appended.

The data files should be read completely - if not, you may have found a 
bug. If you like, you can send a test table...

I hope this helps.

Regards

Christian

PS
I have CCed this mail to the mailing list because it may be interesting 
for other users as well - hoping this is ok for you.


Gabor Tjong A Hung schrieb:
> Dear Christian,
> is there a way to specify the column. I am currently trying to use 
> pgfplotstable to typeset all my tables, including the ones which I 
> originally wrote in longtable/landscape, however it seems that my "data 
> file" is not read completely and I have yet to find a way on how to 
> specify the widths of the columns.
> I would be glad if you could give a hint.
> 
> Regards,
> Gabor