{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 get autobreaking with sequential tables
So it appears that \hspace is not breakable, but is if it is followed by \allowbreak. Alternatively you can use \hskip1.0em as that is breakable.
So, if my understanding is correct, then why do the ...
2
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1answer
107 views
Brace spanning multiple rows in a table and horizontal alignment
I'm a beginner trying to do an brace inside a table, that is spanning multiple rows.
I assume the best way to achieve this is to do a two-row tabular environment, with an array environment for the ...
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2answers
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Automating table creation
I have the following table that I need to recreate quite a few times
Due to its size and complexity (yes, I am a tex novice) I am looking into
ways of automating the creation of said table. I try ...
2
votes
2answers
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\hhline doesnt work
I wonder you can help me why LaTeX can't draw a \hhline in my table??
(I would put a picture but I need at least 10 reputation...)
Here is the code:
\documentclass[12pt,titlepage]{report}
...
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1answer
98 views
Why use \listoffigures \listoftables [closed]
Why do people include "Lists of Figures" and "Lists of Tables" in their theses/books? (as generated by \listoffigures, \listoftables, etc.)
Besides the obvious reason that they take up space and ...
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votes
1answer
101 views
Increasing the height of the Beamer footline
When I add a tabularenvironment to the footline of my presentation, only the first line is shown. How can I increase the heigth of the footline to show the whole table?
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vote
1answer
107 views
Horizontal line through table cell
I have a very long, thin table that I'm folding onto itself to make a wider, shorter version. The table has a couple horizontal rules to separate data categories. For example, the original table is ...
0
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1answer
76 views
Soft midrule in table
3 small questions:
1) I'd like to put a soft \midrule in this table between Care type and the headers, but I'd like it to not quite reach the edge of the table: (at your discretion to mess with the ...
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1answer
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Vertical spacing within float
I have a table in which I want to include two tabular elements one below the other (and justified right).
Right now I have this code, that displays exactly what I want.. I would like to add some ...
2
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1answer
61 views
Left align after \specialcell in a centered table
I'm outputting descriptive tables from Stata using estpost and esttab into TeX format, and then importing them in LyX. I use \refcat to label my survey questions, and since some of them are very long ...
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vote
1answer
46 views
xtab breaking table even though next row could “apparently” fit
Below is the MWE for a table spanning multiple pages. I like how this works generally, but the last row is awkwardly left on a lonely page. In the actual document there are many sections more rows, ...
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1answer
314 views
LaTeX Error: Environment table undefined
When I try to compile a latex file, I get the following error:
LaTeX Error: Environment table undefined.
I think the line that is causing the problem is: \begin{table}
Does anybody know how I can ...
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2answers
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\multicolumn table cell doesn't fit page width
I have this code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ |c|c| }
\hline
\multicolumn{2}{|c}{\lipsum[1]}\\
\hline
text text text text text text & ...
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vote
2answers
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Table too wide, first column too big?
I have the following table:
\documentclass[a4paper, % Seitenformat
12pt,
bibliography=totoc,
index=totoc,
...
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2answers
114 views
Problem with table
I'm trying to create a table for my thesis. I'm quite noob in LaTeX so I will request some charity help
I already done the table in but in other format. See the attachment.
Regards
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4answers
257 views
Big curly brackets and rotated text around table
I have a rather cramped looking table here showing the chance of a nurse touching a surface type given (s)he is doing a certain type of care. I would like to make a large curly bracket to the left of ...
2
votes
1answer
72 views
Make a list with uniform spacing regardless of the characters and number of text lines, possibly with minipages or a table
I am trying to make a list with two columns, where I can used different font sizes and have single- or multi-row columns, while adhering to the page margins and aligning the text properly regardless ...
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votes
1answer
57 views
Small default distance between the caption and the table
By default (in the article class), a table caption (without letters with depth) is very close to a table with two or more rows. Only if the table has one row then the caption and the table will be at ...
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votes
1answer
137 views
Top-aligned table cells with different font sizes and controlled spacing
I am trying to achieve a table where a few things have to work simultaneously. Several of these things have been discussed before, but I have been unable to make everything work at once (and some ...
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vote
1answer
70 views
How to generate this table?
I only know how to use \multirow, but how to use generate the following table in LaTeX?
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1answer
60 views
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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votes
2answers
105 views
How to change the caption name in the article class when using babel?
I have used the following lines in my preamble
\usepackage{babel}
\addto\extrasfrench{%
\providecommand{\og}{\leavevmode\flqq~}%
\providecommand{\fg}{\ifdim\lastskip>\z@\unskip\fi~\frqq}%
}
...
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votes
1answer
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Border alignment issue using tabularx in LaTeX
I'm writing a program to parse wikimarkup to LaTeX, and I've run into a bit of an issue when it comes to creating tables. For some reason, the right vertical edge of the table is getting pushed way ...
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3answers
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Curvy arrows between two tables (with tikz?)
I try to connect two arbitrary tables with arrows. The code example below should demonstrate how: say we want to connect the "1" in A with the "5" in B, the "2" in A with the "7" in B and so on. My ...
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votes
1answer
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How to trim the length of \toprule? [duplicate]
How to trim \toprule (from booktabs package)?
It is probably something basic I'm missing, but I need it and it's nowhere to be found.
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3answers
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Add more space between cells in a table [duplicate]
I'd like to add more space between the cells of the table below. I've tried the command [2ex] after \\ but this changes the vertical alignment, which I'd like to be centered.
\documentclass{article}
...
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1answer
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Make a particular column of a longtable borderless
I am using longtable package to create tables as the number of rows are large and doesn't fit in a single page. This works fine for me. I now need a particular column not to have top and bottom border ...
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2answers
76 views
Because of long row, table not set in page cleanly
I create a table,but some rows are very long.Because of that table could't set on page...What is a solution for that?my code is,
\begin{table}[!ht]
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\caption[Set of ...
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votes
3answers
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Top alignment of cell content in tabularx
I would like to align the content of each cell (of the first column) to the top. The approaches presented here did not apply. Maybe it has something to do with die tabular-environment inside the ...
0
votes
0answers
78 views
Resize Gnumeric Latex table using \input{ExportedFromGnumeric.tex} [closed]
I have spent now 3 hours looking for answers here and mostly everywhere on the internet... But I could not find any way to do that.
I have a table exported from Gnumeric. It is on a file say ...
1
vote
1answer
76 views
Longtable with multicolumn and multirow not working
I'm using a table generated from Excel2Latex in my document. Despite using longtable, the table gets truncated at the end of page after overflowing the bottom margin. Min. working example provided ...
2
votes
2answers
76 views
How to align and resize uniformly objects in latex table
I am trying to make a table which includes graphics as well.
I am doing
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[h!]
\begin{center}
...
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votes
3answers
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Does anyone know an easy way to produce a table with cells spanning multiple pages using latex?
I'm looking into the possibility of using latex for programmatically generating PDFs from templates with placeholders and some textual data. The current solution I have is based on reportlab, and it ...
1
vote
1answer
93 views
lyx table footnote
I have the table below, in LyX. How can I add text that hugs the bottom line and I want it to be very small text, smaller than the font in the table.
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c}
...
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vote
1answer
77 views
How To Fill Leftover Space
I am making a fairly space intensive LaTeX "cheat sheet." Right now, I have added a single table, as so:
However, there is a large gap to the right of this table that I would like to fill with a ...
1
vote
0answers
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Set the line separation in a tabu table equal to the line separation in the document
As is known, the tabu environment does not automatically adjust the vertical distance between a cell with multiple lines and another cell, cf. Text too close to cell border when having a nested tabu ...
0
votes
2answers
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Linebreak in table cell at document margin
In order to allow line breaks within a table cell, I use \parbox. But when the cells I want to have line breaks in are in the last column of the table, the best thing would be to break them at the ...
1
vote
1answer
81 views
LyX - Highlight a result in table
In LyX I am using this table as an ERT addition:
\begin{tabular}{l rlrl }
& \multicolumn{2}{c}{Model 1}
& \multicolumn{2}{c@{}}{Model 2}
\midrule
\midrule
Variable Variable Variable 1 ...
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vote
1answer
69 views
Extra space added in table with multi-rows and columns
I am working with a table with multi-rows and headers. The problem is when I run it, extra space is added both between rows and at the end of the last column.
\documentclass{article}
...
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vote
1answer
115 views
Too narrow S-column in siunitx
I'm making a small table with numbers and units given with the \SI{num}{unit} call. However, the units stretches outside the table width, such that the booktabslines (or any other line) looks too ...
4
votes
2answers
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Figure and Table next to each other (memoir class) [duplicate]
To save space, I would like to place the following table next to each other. Each has a separate caption. I have this,
I want this,
Sample code,
\documentclass[]{memoir}
...
3
votes
2answers
201 views
A table font size smaller than tiny?
I have looked and there are answers for LaTeX documents, but not a way to implement it in LyX. If I have a table and it just does not fit, is there a way to get a text size smaller than \tiny in LyX? ...
1
vote
0answers
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LyX White Space on Slide [duplicate]
Using LyX I find that there is always so much white space between the figure and the the slide title and between the table caption and the table. Is there a way to reduce this space in the preamble?
3
votes
2answers
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table with blank caption but table label
If I don't put a caption on my table, I don't get the "Table 2.2" label underneath it. If I add a blank caption, I get "Table 2.2:". How do I get rid of the ":"?
I am using memoir and ...
6
votes
2answers
128 views
How to vertically align multiline column
I am trying to set up a table with the tabularx package (although the used package does not really matter to me).
The table should stretch across the entire line. I am trying to get both columns ...
3
votes
2answers
74 views
Defining a newenvironment with optional caption
I am trying to define a new table environment with optional caption. However, if I don't pass it the caption, I am still getting the "Table 1.1:" below the table. What am I missing here? Thanks. ...
2
votes
1answer
66 views
Fit a page to table
How can I fit a page to show an entire table (all I've seen here is the opposed, fit the table size to the page size. But, as I'll not print the result, I want to do the opposite)
This is a sample of ...
2
votes
1answer
82 views
Using ERT in LyX [duplicate]
Using LyX to create a Beamer presentation I used the TeX button to insert some ERT:
\begin{table}\caption{Regression table\label{tab1}}
\begin{center}
\begin{tabular}{l r l r l r l}
\hline
& ...
7
votes
2answers
194 views
How to set the space between rows in a table
This is the Latex code I have to create a table:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[top=0.5cm, bottom=0.5cm, left=0.5cm, right=0.5cm, ...
3
votes
1answer
54 views
Caption Centered but Table is not
For some reason the caption is aligned in the center of the page but the table is too far to the right. How can I have both centered?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
...
