{tables} is about the tabular environment and related packages such as {array}, {booktabs}, {tabularx} and {longtable}. For questions about the table environment (i.e., about floating or positioning), use {floats} instead.
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How to add extra spaces between rows in tabular environment?
I couldn't find any option that lets me expand the vertical space between rows in tabular environment. For example,
\begin{tabular}{c c}
$f^{(n)}(x)$ & $f^{(n)}(0)$ \\
...
9
votes
2answers
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pgfplotstable or datatool?
What are differences, which to use for including .csv, .tsv files ?
Datatool ? pgfplotstable ?
I've seen at question : How typeset a numeric table from a CSV file
how person asked about fixing ...
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votes
3answers
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slashbox alternative [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Diagonal lines in table cell
Is there a better way to label both axes of a table at the same time rather than using slashbox? It looks kind of ugly.
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votes
3answers
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Why can't I wrap \rowcolor in \only? (Beamer)
See the following minimal example:
\documentclass[table]{beamer}
\begin{document}
\begin{frame}{Boo}
\begin{table}
\centering
\small
\begin{tabular}{rcc}
\only<1>{\rowcolor{green}}Hey & ...
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votes
2answers
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colortbl: \rowcolor in tables with \begin{tabular}{@{}ccc@{}}
I'm trying to make a table with the following code:
\begin{tabular}{@{}ccc@{}}
\hline
\rowcolor[gray]{.9} a & b & c \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
Unfortunately the \rowcolor command seems ...
0
votes
1answer
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How to make table with divided column [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to merge columns in a table?
How can I make a table of the type above? I am writing a seminar report using the report class.
9
votes
2answers
627 views
Color entire table
How do I get an entire table to get a background color. I dont mean the indivual cells but the entire table to get a gray shade. Something like this:
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votes
3answers
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Relative column width in LaTeX
How can I define a tabular with two columns in LaTeX, where the first column fills 30% of the page width and the second column fills the rest?
3
votes
1answer
707 views
longtabu and floats: wrong table breaks on pages with floats
I noticed that the tabu package seems to have problems with its longtabu environment, if it is placed on a page, where a float already is placed.
Consider the following MWE:
...
1
vote
1answer
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bottomrule not working in a self-made environment
I have this environment for consistent tables in my LaTeX documents:
\newenvironment{defaultTable}[2] {
\@float{table}[h]
\noindent
\tabularx{\textwidth}{#1}
\specialrule{0.5pt}{10pt}{0pt}
...
28
votes
3answers
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How to create alternating rows in a table?
Sometimes you can see in books tables, that have alternating background color for rows in a table to support readability. How I can achieve this with LaTeX?
And yes, I could put macros \odd and \even ...
25
votes
2answers
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How to diagonally divide a table cell … properly?
There have been many threads discussing solutions on how to put a diagonal line in a table cell. There are also two packets to do this, slashbox and the better looking makecell with its \diaghead ...
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votes
2answers
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Insert libreoffice table as input
This question led to a new package:
odsfile
Suppose you have an localc spreadsheet myspread.ods and you want to insert the content of the range H4:I40 as a table into your latex document. I ...
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votes
2answers
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Changing the font size in a table
What's the recommend way of changing the font size in a particular table? Is there a better way than enclosing all values with, for example, the \tiny function.
14
votes
2answers
1k views
How to create new table environment
I am working on a book that has many many such tables. Is there a way to create shortcut for the code shown below. I want to make table caption a variable, because in the MWE shown below except ...
13
votes
1answer
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Column-wise break of extra wide tables
I have to plot geochemical data tables that are like this table
, i.e. with a header column, but that have much more sample columns. When having too many columns, the table has to be broken at a ...
12
votes
3answers
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Is there a way to slightly shrink a table, including font size, to fit within the column boundaries?
I have a table that is just a little too wide for a 3.33" column. Is there a way to simply shrink the table a little to make it fit? I'm OK if the 10pt font becomes 9pt-something. Here is an example.
...
8
votes
3answers
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How can I center all tables in a document?
Background
Would like to center all tables within floats, without having to add \centering to each table.
Ideas
Tried the following:
\let\originaltabular\tabular
...
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votes
2answers
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How to force a table into page width?
I have the following table:
\begin{table}[htb]
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (table) [inner sep=0pt] {
\begin{tabular}{ l | l }
{\bf Symptom} & {\bf Metric} \\
\hline
Class that has many accessor ...
14
votes
3answers
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Rotated column titles in tabular
I'd like to create a chart where the column titles are rotated, as per this toy example:
I used the rotating package to generate the above. It has certain shortcomings: the rotate command doesn't ...
14
votes
5answers
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How to apply a macro to each column of a table
I want to apply a macro to all the cells of a column with the cell content as the input to the macro. Is this possible?
For example if the cell contents have the word TEST, the macro should take TEST ...
14
votes
1answer
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Tables: Colouring odd/even mixed up
I have a huge document (around 100 pages) and a lot of tables in it. I used
\usepackage[table]{xcolor}
\definecolor{lightblue}{rgb}{0.93,0.95,1.0}
\rowcolors{1}{white}{lightblue} % odd = white, even ...
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votes
4answers
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How to rotate a table?
I have a table and I want to rotate it. The table has 3 rows and 4 columns, and I want to rotate the text inside this table as well. How can I do this?
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votes
2answers
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How to include enumerate in tabular?
I would like to have text in one column table with multiple rows, but I need to include an enumerate in one cell. I get errors and read on the Internet the problem is in combining environments with ...
11
votes
5answers
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Align Note below table
My question concerns the "Note" below the table. This is my code:
\begin{table}
\begin{center}
\caption{ Descriptive statistics of total sample based on modified data set}\label{table:descrtotal}
...
11
votes
1answer
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Coloring columns in a table with colortbl and booktabs
I have created a rather complicated table with some columns that I want to color. For the table, I chose the booktabs and tabularx packages. For coloring the columns, I use colortbl.
The problem that ...
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votes
2answers
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How to force table caption on top?
I have a table which works ok...as per example below. But in the thesis, the right column is centered and caption forced to below table. Is there a way I can make it look like?
...
8
votes
2answers
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Using an image as a table
I have an image containing tabular data and would not like to convert this to a real table. What I do want is for this image to have a proper caption and be included in the listoftables.
Is it ...
6
votes
2answers
675 views
Crop entire document around figure
Have you ever submitted a LaTeX paper to a journal that wants separate figures? When you want to include a figure composed of a table of images, you must build it separately.
When I run latexpdf, I ...
4
votes
1answer
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Color changes cell height in tabular
The following code shows that a \color{red} command increases the height of a tabular cell.
I want to use a switch, not a command as \textcolor{red}{text}.
\documentclass{article}
...
4
votes
4answers
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How to obtain width of longtable?
I need to create multiple tables of the same width, one of them needs to be a longtable due to spanning multiple pages. I could set the width of all of them to a predefined value. However, I would ...
14
votes
1answer
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Fixed column width table with text left aligned in cells
\section{Section Title} %label{8.4.47}
\subsection*{Some note on Section}
\begin{footnotesize}
\begin{tabular}{p{2cm}|p{4cm}|p{3cm}|p{3cm}}
Heading 1 & Heading 2 & Heading 3 & Heading 4 ...
12
votes
3answers
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Expansion of first token in a tabular cell
Background
I currently do some work on the collcell package which collects the content of a tabular/array cell and provides it to a user defined macro, e.g. using ...
10
votes
2answers
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How can I center a too wide table?
I have a document containing a table which is slightly too wide for the page. But instead of growing to the right side only, I would like to have it centered on the page.
I have tried to use the ...
10
votes
3answers
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Control order of columns in table
Is there maybe a way to define the order of columns oneself?
Say I have
\begin{tabular}{ l l l }
A1 & C1 & B1 \\
A2 & C2 & B2 \\
A3 & C3 & B3 \\
\end{tabular}
but ...
9
votes
2answers
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How to merge columns in a table?
I have this table, but wanted to format the first row. I like to match the two columns of first row, and last two columns of the same first row. Any suggestion on how to do that?
\begin{table}[!h]
...
7
votes
3answers
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Keep first column on every page of long sideways-table
I have a table with a lot of columns, so I am going to make it landscape.The very first column is a sort of header, so I would like to repeat it on every page. Is there a way to do that?
5
votes
1answer
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Tabular with arrows or lines between some cells
I have a table like the one below and want to write this in Latex. what would be the best aproach? I have tried it with Tikz where i can nest a Table but failed with the lines wich connect the ...
5
votes
4answers
421 views
Footnotes in Tabulars?
Is there a simple, elegant solution to add footnotes in a table (tabular)? Preferably, the solution can also support the cleveref package.
EDIT: My intended effect is that, the footnotes should be ...
4
votes
1answer
357 views
Caption at foot of long tables ('longtable' package)
I would like to ask a question about longtable package. I've already posted it in other forums.
I have a long table (a several-pages-long one) using longtable package and I would like to add a table ...
4
votes
2answers
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generating LaTeX tabular code during compilation
I use LaTeX for scientific reporting in brain imaging (fMRI). I have a tabular array in LaTeX, that contains quite a lot of rows and columns, which both are brain regions and in the each intersecting ...
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votes
3answers
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How to specify a fixed height for all rows in a table?
I have something like this:
\newcolumntype{C}[1]{>{\centering\let\newline\\\arraybackslash\hspace{0pt}}m{#1}}
\begin{tabular}{| c | C{3cm} | C{4cm} |}
Short Text & Short Text & Short Text ...
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votes
3answers
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Is there something like “sidewayslongtable”?
Unfortunately my table is too wide to use longtable.
In sideways it fits on width.
Unfortunately it's too long to fit on one page.
Is there something like sidewayslongtable, a way to combine ...
13
votes
2answers
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“[” as first character in table row
Whenever I try to compile a table that has a "[" as first character in a row it gives me the error:
Missing number, treated as zero.
Illegal unit of measure
Example:
\begin{table}[htb]
...
8
votes
1answer
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Is it possible to have multiple paragraphs inside a multicolumn using xcolor or a replacement?
I am getting information written by users in many lines, paragraphs, and I have to put those inside a table, I would like to know if it is possible to instruct LaTeX to accept paragraphs inside a ...
7
votes
2answers
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How to include tabularx/y in a new environment?
I am looking for a way to define a customizable environment for tables in my latex documents. This means:
caption and label
width of table
customized column format (tabular preamble)
While this ...
6
votes
2answers
357 views
Hebrew vs. German/English translation side-by-side
I am having the following problem: I have Hebrew texts and want to put translations (and other information) right next to it in a nice way. (Previously I used the old Nisus Writer for Mac which for ...
5
votes
1answer
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Table with a numbered list
What is the best way to make a table/list that looks like this:
1. Item 1
subitem type date
subitem type date
2. Item 2
subitem type date
...
5
votes
2answers
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tabularx inside a \newenvironment
There's something wrong with this code:
\newenvironment{Tbl}
{\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{|l|X|} \hline}
{\end{tabularx}}
but this is fine:
\newenvironment{Tbl}
{\begin{tabular}{|l|l|} \hline}
...
5
votes
4answers
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Generate LaTeX Truth Table with Python Cheetah
While looking for code which can automatically generate truth table in LaTeX I stumbled on this Python generator. It appears that the code can be used from Cheetah's framework. Can anybody point me to ...
