ctable cell vertical align

Question

I have a table like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ctable}
\begin{document}
\ctable
 [caption=Sample]
 {|p{2cm}|c|}
 {}
 {
  \hline
  some multiline (2 or 3 fields) field & need to vertically center this \\ \hline
  one more field & and this \\ \hline
 }
\end{document}

I want cells at the second column to be vertically center aligned. Which is the simplest and best method?

Answer 1

Use an m{2in} column type rather than p{2in} (which centres its contents vertically). This is provided by the array package, already loaded by ctable:

\ctable
 [caption=Sample]
 {|m{2cm}|c|}

Alternatively, the multirow can also do this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ctable}% http://ctan.org/pkg/ctable
\usepackage{multirow}% http://ctan.org/pkg/multirow
\begin{document}
\ctable
 [caption=Sample]
 {|p{2cm}|c|}
 {}
 {
  \hline
  some multiline (2 or 3 fields) field & \multirow{3}*{need to vertically center this} \\ \hline
  one more field & \multirow{2}*{and this} \\ \hline
 }
\end{document}