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I'm using \minipage to put two tables side by side. But when the two tables are not of equal length, the shorter of the two is vertically centered with respect to the other. I would like both tables to be aligned horizontally at the top (i.e. so that I could draw an imaginary straight flat line from (1) through (2)).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[h]
        \begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        ich & `I'\\
                        du & `you'\\
                        er & `he'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
        \begin{minipage}{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        Schiff & `ship'\\
                        Haus & `house'\\
                        Mund & `mouth'\\
                        Auto & `car'\\
                        Buch & `book'\\
                        Stuhl & `chair'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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    Use [t] as option for the minipage environment.
    – user10274
    Mar 10, 2013 at 18:11

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As Marc van Dongen says in a comment, add [t] as an option to both minipage environments:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gb4e}
\begin{document}
    \begin{table}[h]
        \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        ich & `I'\\
                        du & `you'\\
                        er & `he'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
        \begin{minipage}[t]{0.5\linewidth}
            \begin{exe}
                \ex
                    \begin{tabular}[t]{l l}
                        Schiff & `ship'\\
                        Haus & `house'\\
                        Mund & `mouth'\\
                        Auto & `car'\\
                        Buch & `book'\\
                        Stuhl & `chair'\\
                    \end{tabular}
            \end{exe}
        \end{minipage}
    \end{table}
\end{document}

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    Please don't add [h] to all tables. You usually don't need them and they make LaTeX layout harder.
    – vy32
    Aug 21, 2017 at 12:22

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