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Table layout: cells with short and long text
I've been fiddling with a table layout where some cells contain very little text while others may need multiple lines, and I can't seem to get it readable and nice-looking.
MWE:
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1answer
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Vertical alignment of the `aligned` environment in table cells
I think most people will agree that the vertical alignment in the table cells below is less than ideal--especially if I want to remove the \cmidrule to be more in line with accepted "best practices" ...
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2answers
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Professional slashbox alternative
Suppose I have the following table which lists conversion rules, where rows denote the input and columns denote the output type (so, for example, the conversion int8_t -> int16_t would use b, while ...
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1answer
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How to use commands in table specs, and still support array package?
For a package, I want to write code that creates tables, where the exact type of table is configurable (tabular, longtable, tabularx, ... [Update: David rightly remarked that formats like tabularx ...
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2answers
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Best practices longtable
I have a long table with the explanation of 50 items (the MWE displays only 9). I believe this is hard to read. How do I make it easy to read?
\documentclass[10pt,cleardoublepage=empty,twoside]{book}
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9
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1answer
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What is best practice for aligning distinct arrays or tables side-by-side?
I have two related tables that could naturally be displayed side-by-side but don't have to be. However, it saves space to display them side-by-side rather than one atop the other. If I do so without ...
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3answers
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Reusing LaTeX code to achieve a consistent layout
What is the best approach to reusing the same layout for numerous tables, paragraphs etc. which share the same structure but different content? Is the best method to use custom commands/macros?
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1answer
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How to align decimal separator inside a specific table?
The table comes from the excellent answer of Philippe Goutet about this question :
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{array,booktabs} % I add booktabs AM
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3answers
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Centering table column titles above comma-aligned numbers
I am trying to make the following table look nice. With that I want the title
to be centered horizontally, and the numbers to be alligned at comma.
Here is how it looks now:
And my code.
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3answers
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Why not use vertical lines ('|') in a tabular?
My question is a follow-up to the answer to a follow-up question, to be found here. ;)
I'd like to know why one would advise against using vertical lines (via |) in a tabular (i.e. in ...
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1answer
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Enumerate/itemize without margins in table cell best practice
I want to use an itemize or enumerate list inside a table cell. For this there should be no margin around the list. My question is, what is best practice to do this? I found different solutions for ...
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1answer
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Multi-line column labels in a table
In a table a long label for a column often needs to be split into two parts. I usually do this manually by putting each part in a row of its own but it feels wrong because it splits a semantic entity. ...
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6answers
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Footnotes in tables?
I would like to have footnotes in tables, but the \footnote command does not work inside a table environment. Googling one finds that this is a frequently asked question, at least in the UK. That ...
