I'm trying to align numbers by a decimal point in LaTex.  I know this has already been answered, but what I can't figure out is how to center justify the labels around the decimal point.  \begin{tabular}{r@{}l r@{}l} \hline \multicolumn{2}{c}{Landings (mton)} &amp; \multicolumn{2}{c}{Landings (mton)} \\ 73.&amp;57&amp;877.&amp;36\\ 1.&amp;28&amp;5.&amp;19\\ \hline \end{tabular}
Let me begin by stating that I did google the answers (and I'll reference to them soon). Yet each of the resources I found discussed one particular method, I'm interested in a comparison of the approaches.  So far, I've found three ways to deal with this problem:   split the number into two columns (integer and fractional parts), as documented  or . The LaTeX code is simple, but the approach is a pain when it comes to copying and pasting tables from external sources. use  manually use Mike Zhang's automatic  (). I have yet to test it.   What do most people use? dcolumn? Are there other options?
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