The LaTeX-package ``fcolumn'' In financial reports, text and currency amounts are regularly put in one table, e.g., a year balance or a profit-and-loss overview. This package provides the settings for automatically typesetting such columns, including the sum line (preceded by a rule of the correct width), using the specifier ``f''. The column specifier f itself is rather simple. It is the predefined version of a generic column F. The generic version expects three arguments: |#1| is the separator, |#2| is the decimal mark, and |#3| the coding used for grouping digits of the integer part and decimal part. For example the f-column in the current version of the package is using 3,2 as #3, meaning that numbers are typeset with 2 decimal digits and grouping is done on 3 digits. The grouping character is ``.'' and the decimal separator is ``,'', thereby coding for the continental European standard. People in the Anglo-saxon world would rather code |\newcolumntype{f}{F{,}{.}{3,2}}|. To show where and how the f-column is used, let's look at a typical financial table. properties 31 dec 2014 debts 31 dec 2014 ----------------------------------------------------- house 200.000,00 equity capital 50.000,00 bank account -603,23 mortgage 150.000,00 savings 28.000,00 cash 145,85 profit 27.542,62 ---------- ---------- 227.542,62 227.542,62 The core part of this table is input as \begin{tabular}{lflf} house & 20000000 & equity capital & 5000000\\ bank account & -60323 & mortgage & 15000000\\ savings & 2800000 \\ cash & 14585 & profit & 2754262\\ \sumline \end{tabular} The column specifier ``f'' (for ``finance'') is able to do the typesetting. It constructs the sum line, typesets the numbers, calculates the totals, makes rules of the correct widths, and checks whether the two columns are in balance; if not, the user is warned via a message. A special command \resetsumline exists which allows one to restart a table, so that multiple tables in one tabular environment are possible. To install: ----------- Run the file fcolumn.ins through LaTeX (in a directory also containing fcolumn.dtx) and move the file fcolumn.sty to a place searched by TeX. To produce the documentation: ----------------------------- Run the file fcolumn.dtx through LaTeX. Update the glossary and index by makeindex: makeindex -s gglo.ist -o fcolumn.gls fcolumn.glo makeindex -s gglo.ist -o fcolumn.ind fcolumn.idx and then LaTeX again; presto!