Table 2: Metal abundances in Damped Lyman-$\alpha $ systems.
Name $z_{\rm abs}$ [Fe/H] [O/H] [N/H] (O/H)+12c (N/O)d [S/H] [Si/H]
Q 0000-263a 3.390 -2.00(0.09) -1.67(0.13) -2.50(0.08) 7.02 -1.69(0.10) -1.89(0.09) -1.88(0.08)
Q 0102-190 2.926 -1.68(0.10) -1.56(0.13) -3.07(0.15) 7.13 -2.30(0.16) -1.37(0.10) -1.50(0.10)
Q 0112-306 2.418 -2.64(0.09) -2.24(0.12) -3.17(0.09) 6.45 -1.79(0.09) -1.25(0.08) -2.42(0.08)
Q 0347-383 3.025 -1.85(0.05) -0.97(0.12) -1.92(0.05) 7.72 -1.81(0.11) -1.18(0.06) -1.49(0.06)
Q 0841+129 2.476 -1.79(0.10) -1.40(0.10) -2.69(0.10) 7.29 -2.15(0.04) -1.55(0.10) -1.58(0.10)
Q 0913+072 2.618 -2.72(0.10) -2.45(0.10) <-3.73 6.24 <-2.14 -1.66(0.10) -2.57(0.10)
Q 1108-077 3.608 -1.96(0.07) -1.69(0.08) <-3.36 7.00 <-2.53   -1.57(0.07)
Q 1337+113 2.508 -2.23(0.05) -1.91(0.11) -3.11(0.11) 6.78 -2.06(0.14)   -1.84(0.06)
Q 1337+113 2.796 -2.14(0.08) -1.95(0.10) -2.84(0.09) 6.74 -1.61(0.09)   -1.84(0.09)
Q 1340-136 3.118 -1.59(0.08) -1.22(0.08) -2.60(0.08) 7.47 -2.24(0.03) -1.41(0.08) -1.18(0.08)
Q 1409+095 2.456 -2.43(0.08) -1.89(0.08) <-2.85 6.80 <-1.82 -1.74(0.08) -2.17(0.08)
Q 1409+095 2.668 -1.51(0.08) -1.31(0.08) -2.13(0.08) 7.38 -1.68(0.03) -1.40(0.09) -1.28(0.08)
Q 1946+769b 2.844 -2.50(0.06) -2.14(0.06) -3.51(0.07) 6.55 -2.23(0.04)   -2.21(0.06)
Q 2059-360 3.083 -1.97(0.08) -1.58(0.09) -2.86(0.08) 7.11 -2.14(0.04) -1.76(0.09) -1.66(0.09)
Q 2332-094 3.057 -1.60(0.07) -1.24(0.07) -2.60(0.08) 7.45 -1.94(0.05) -1.32(0.08)  
QXO 0001b 3 <-1.08 -1.62(0.05) -3.22(0.06) 7.07 -2.46(0.05)   -1.79(0.05)
a Molaro et al. (2001); b Prochaska et al. (2002); c$\sigma$ = $\sigma$([O/H]); d errors are taken as square root of the geometrical mean of the variances of N(N  I) and N(O  I), as given in Table 1, except for Q 0102-190, Q 1337+113 at $z_{\rm abs}$ = 2.796 and Q 2332-094 for which we consider only the main components of the systems to calculate the [N/O] ratio (see text in Sect. 3).

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