# Table does not fit

I have put this into LaTeX to get a table in another page:

\afterpage{
\begin{landscape}
\begin{table}[h!]
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{| c ||l | l |l | l | l |l | l |l|l |l |l |l | l|l |}
\hline
Interval & \begin{sideways} Unison & Minor 2nd & Major 2nd & Minor 3rd & Major 3rd & Perfect 4th & Diminished 5th & Augmented 4th & Perfect 5th & Minor 6th and Major 6th & Minor 7th & Major 7th & Octave \end{sideways} \\
\hline
Ratios & $\frac{1}{1}$ &  $\frac{256}{243}$ &  $\frac{9}{8}$ &  $\frac{32}{27}$ &  $\frac{81}{64}$ &  $\frac{4}{3}$ &  $\frac{1024}{729}$ &  $\frac{729}{512}$ &  $\frac{3}{2}$ &  $\frac{128}{81}$ &  $\frac{27}{16}$ &  $\frac{16}{9}$ &  $\frac{243}{128}$ &  $\frac{2}{1}$ \\
\hline
Note & C & D\$flat$ & D & E\$flat$ & E & F & G\$flat$ & F$\sharp$& G & A\$flat$ & A & B\$flat$ & B & C \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\caption{The Pythagorean Chromatic Scale$} \end{center} \end{table} \end{landscape} }  But I keep getting error messages. Is it because it is too big?! - What error messages? – m0nhawk Dec 6 '13 at 13:36 Welcome to TeX.SX! You can have a look at our starter guide to familiarize yourself further with our format. A tip: indenting lines by 4 spaces displays them as code. Tables that are too big produces warnings, not errors. Can you tell exactly what is being reported. – Andrew Swann Dec 6 '13 at 13:37 You should always post a complete document that shows the error and paste the exact error message but this is an error with an un-matched math delimiter: E\$flat$ \$ typesets a $ then $ starts math mode which is never ended. also \begin{sideways}  is started in one cell and not ended. –  David Carlisle Dec 6 '13 at 13:37
The error now is Overfull \hbox (6.40596pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 166--166 []$\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 ([])[]$| –  Georgina Dec 6 '13 at 13:51
Welcome to TeX.SX! Please make your code compilable (if possible), or at least complete it with \documentclass{...}, \begin{document}, and \end{document}. That may seem tedious to you, but think of the extra work it represents for TeX.SX users willing to give you a hand. Help them help you: remove that one hurdle between you and a solution to your problem. –  Martin Schröder Dec 6 '13 at 14:03

Such a table is very awkward to read: you have it sideways and the column headers are sideways too.

It's better to transpose it:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}

\begin{table}[htp]
\centering

\begin{tabular}{lcc}
\toprule
Interval & Ratio & Note \\
\midrule
Unison & $\frac{1}{1}$ & C \\
Minor 2nd & $\frac{256}{243}$ & D$\flat$ \\
Major 2nd & $\frac{9}{8}$ & D \\
Minor 3rd & $\frac{32}{27}$ & E$\flat$ \\
Major 3rd & $\frac{81}{64}$ & E \\
Perfect 4th & $\frac{4}{3}$ & F \\
Diminished 5th & $\frac{1024}{729}$ & G$\flat$ \\
Augmented 4th & $\frac{729}{512}$ & F$\sharp$ \\
Perfect 5th & $\frac{3}{2}$ & G \\
Minor 6th & $\frac{128}{81}$ & A$\flat$ \\
Major 6th & $\frac{27}{16}$ & A \\
Minor 7th & $\frac{16}{9}$ & B$\flat$ \\
Major 7th & $\frac{243}{128}$ & B \\
Octave & $\frac{2}{1}$ & C \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}

\caption{The Pythagorean Chromatic Scale}
\end{table}

\end{document}


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Many thanks, This was extremely helpful! –  Georgina Dec 11 '13 at 12:50

Your code, at least as posted, contains a lot of errors and does not compile. I've tried to clean it up as best I could. Among other things, I've gotten rid of all vertical lines; IMHO vertical lines provide mostly clutter. I've also replaced various \hline instructions with \toprule, \midrule, and \bottomrule, three commands of the booktabs package that produce better spacing. One problem that does not seem to be present, though, is that of the table being too wide to fit into the text block.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx,booktabs}
\newcommand{\rot}[1]{\rotatebox{90}{#1}} % shorthand macro to rotate items by 90 degrees
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ @{} l *{14}{c} }
\toprule
Interval & \rot{Unison} & \rot{Minor 2nd} & \rot{Major 2nd} &
\rot{Minor 3rd} & \rot{Major 3rd} & \rot{Perfect 4th} &
\rot{Diminished 5th} & \rot{Augmented 4th\ } & \rot{Perfect 5th} &
\rot{Minor 6th} & \rot{Major 6th} & \rot{Minor 7th} & \rot{Major 7th} &
\rot{Octave}  \\
\midrule
Ratio &  $\frac{1}{1}$      &  $\frac{256}{243}$ &  $\frac{9}{8}$ &
$\frac{32}{27}$    &  $\frac{81}{64}$   &  $\frac{4}{3}$ &
$\frac{1024}{729}$ &  $\frac{729}{512}$ &  $\frac{3}{2}$ &
$\frac{128}{81}$   &  $\frac{27}{16}$   &  $\frac{16}{9}$&
$\frac{243}{128}$  &  $\frac{2}{1}$ \\[1ex]
Note & C & D$\flat$ & D & E$\flat$ & E & F & G$\flat$ & F$\sharp$& G & A$\flat$ & A & B$\flat$ & B & C \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\caption{The Pythagorean Chromatic Scale}
\end{table}
\end{document}

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