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Hi two questions in one:

I haven't been able to figure out the answer from the manual: I have a table of data with strings in the first column:

I'd like to apply some key-values (e.g. fonts by sign) to the numeric columns only. Is there a quick way of doing so?

something like

every numeric column/.style={fonts by sign={}{\color{red}}

or 

every columns nos {2,3,4}/.style={fonts by sign={}{\color{red}}

MWE to work on below

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\begin{document}
\pgfplotstableread[row sep=\\,col sep=&,header=false]{
a & 1 & 2\\
b & 2 & -2\\
c & 3 & 0.5\\
}\atable

\pgfplotstabletypeset[fixed,
zerofill,
fonts by sign={}{\color{red}},
every first column/.style={string type}]\atable
\end{document}
David Carlisle
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Tahnoon Pasha
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1 Answers1

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You can use 

columns/1/.style={{fonts by sign={}{\color{red}}},dec sep align},

for each column, Here, dec sep align is used to align the numbers at the decimal point.

Full code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\begin{document}
\pgfplotstableread[row sep=\\,col sep=&,header=false]{
a & 1 & 2\\
b & 2 & -2\\
c & 3 & 0.5\\
}\atable

\pgfplotstabletypeset[fixed,
zerofill,
columns/1/.style={{fonts by sign={}{\color{red}}},dec sep align},
columns/2/.style={{fonts by sign={}{\color{red}}},dec sep align},
every first column/.style={string type}]\atable
\end{document}

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David Carlisle
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  • Thanks @HarishKumar, I'm looking for something that deals with multiple columns collectively. I have a large number of columns and doing this individually would make the tex file very unwieldy. – Tahnoon Pasha Oct 15 '12 at 04:16
  • @TahnoonPasha I don't think that feature is available! :(. There are every even column/.style and every odd column/.style though, but they will conflict with your first column. –  Oct 16 '12 at 00:17
  • I think you may be right, but felt I'd try asking anyway. This may be another feature request for @ChristianFeuersanger. I might try and write a macro for it if I ever figure out how they work. If I do I'll post it here. – Tahnoon Pasha Oct 16 '12 at 10:14