Drafting and Detailing Text: Decimal Justification

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over 3 years ago

Text: Decimal Justification

MicroStation allows text to be justified in several ways. However, those abilities do not include decimal justification.

MicroStation CONNECT includes Tables. Wouldn't it be great to have a decimal alignment option similar to Microsoft Excel and Word tables?

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Offline Jan Šlegr over 3 years ago +2

In addition, the decimal justification has to support different decimal separators , used in different countries. It can be achieved by manual separator definition (and not inherited e.g. from current…

Offline Jon Summers over 3 years ago

Additional note: when an Excel worksheet has a column of decimal numbers that are aligned with the decimal point, a MicroStation Table reproduces it faithfully. I used the MicroStation Table tool to import the Excel source...

Here's the Excel file and the DGN file from which the above screenshot was taken:

DecimalJustificationTables.zip
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Offline Jan Šlegr over 3 years ago

In addition, the decimal justification has to support different decimal separators, used in different countries.

It can be achieved by manual separator definition (and not inherited e.g. from current Windows culture).
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