Some basic questions about fld tables

[Edwin Gore]

I haven't worked with them enough to know for sure, but my *guess* is that the term "decimal" refers to the type of tab-stop, not the format of the content.

>For a 
>start how does the nomenclature work - in the
>tableFun stack, we get 
>a reference to some 'part of the field (i.e. some
>cells of the table) 
>being formatted using 'decimal. The ref says
>
>1,1:3,17	    Decimal:1
>
>What does this actually mean? Assuming this is a
>kind of address list 
>for cells which will be formatted as Decimal, what
>happens when I put 
>a non-decimal value into one of these cells -
>AFAICS, nothing. What 
>then does the 'format... using' do? Can't find
>anything relevant in 
>the TD.