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@@ -2418,20 +2418,20 @@ to the layout of tabular material (Table~\ref{tab:opt:tables}).
\DescribeOption{table-alignment-mode}
The method used by \pkg{siunitx} to align numbers is selected using the
\opt{table-alignment-mode} option, which may be one of \opt{marker},
-\opt{format} or \meta{none}. With the standard setting, \meta{marker}, the
+\opt{format} or \meta{none}. With the standard setting, \opt{marker}, the
package centers the decimal marker in a tabular column, potentially leaving
-white space at the shorter end of a number. The \meta{format} mode uses
-information from the \meta{table-format} key to construct a model: this is then
+white space at the shorter end of a number. The \opt{format} mode uses
+information from the \opt{table-format} key to construct a model: this is then
used to define the space available to a number. For asymmetrical numbers, this
method is strongly preferable. Finally, \opt{none} disables alignment entirely:
numbers are simply parsed.
\DescribeOption{table-number-alignment}
-When \opt{table-alignment-mode} is set to \meta{format} or \meta{none}, the
+When \opt{table-alignment-mode} is set to \opt{format} or \opt{none}, the
placement of the number \enquote{block} within the cell as a whole is set by
-the \meta{table-number-alignment} option, which may be one of \meta{left},
-\meta{center} or \meta{right}. (When \opt{table-alignment-mode} is set to
-\meta{marker}, the decimal marker is always centered in the cell.) The
+the \opt{table-number-alignment} option, which may be one of \opt{left},
+\opt{center} or \opt{right}. (When \opt{table-alignment-mode} is set to
+\opt{marker}, the decimal marker is always centered in the cell.) The
different alignment choices are illustrated in Table~\ref{tab:S:align}, which
uses somewhat exaggerated column headings to show the relative position of the
cell contents.
@@ -2485,7 +2485,7 @@ Table~\ref{tab:S:parse}.
\DescribeOption{table-format}
When the \opt{table-alignment-mode} is set to \opt{format}, \pkg{siunitx} uses
-the information set in \meta{table-format} to construct a \enquote{model} which
+the information set in \opt{table-format} to construct a \enquote{model} which
defines the space to reserve for a number. The \opt{table-format} key is
interpreted in much the same way as a table cell. The numerical part should
consist of a number showing how many figures to reserve in each part of the
@@ -2805,7 +2805,10 @@ the numbers themselves right-aligned (Table~\ref{tab:width:special}).
Cell contents which are not part of a number can be protected using braces, as
illustrated. Cells which contain no numerical data at all are aligned using the
setting specified by the \opt{table-text-alignment} option, which recognises
-the values \opt{center}, \opt{left} and \opt{right} (Table~\ref{tab:S:text}).
+the values \opt{center}, \opt{left}, \opt{none} and \opt{right}
+(Table~\ref{tab:S:text}). The setting \opt{none} is intended for use with
+the package \pkg{tabularray}, which carries out its own alignment of textual
+values.
\begin{LaTeXdemo}[code and float]
\begin{table}
\caption{Aligning text in \texttt{S} columns.%