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Merops
mensa
tables
Authors
do not always conform to publisher guidelines on how to structure tables. Merops
mensa automates known table conversion problems.
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Latticed
Trogons:
the lattice pattern evokes a cellular table grid
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Standardization
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Merops
mensa ensures consistent presentation of table citations and
legend text according to publisher style. For example: tab.2 ⇒ Table 2
Another example is conversion from Roman to Arabic numerals: Table
II to IV ⇒ Tables 2–4
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Cross-checking
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Merops
mensa checks that table citations are in sequence. If not,
the files and citations can be automatically renumbered. Merops mensa
also checks and standardizes table footnotes.
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Conversion
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Not all
authors have access to, or a happy to use, word-processor table grids. Merops
mensa automatically transforms tabular data separated by multiple
spaces and tabs into cellular tables.
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Correction tools
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It is
often the case that this can result in misalignment of table columns,
because rather than set up specific tabs are keyed multiple times until
columns align visually. Merops mensa includes interactive
correction tools that will instantly distil tables down to largely overcome
this problem.
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Data manipulation
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Because
Merops can understand the relationship between a column
heading and column values, the power of some advanced correction and
presentation features can be brought to bear on complete tables of columns.
For example:
•
standardize means ± SEM
using Merops statistica
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change prices using Merops numerus extra
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