How does one increase the height of the rows in a LaTeX table?
Use package easytable
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[thinlines]{easytable}
\begin{document}
\begin{TAB}(r,1cm,2cm)[5pt]{|c|c|}{|c|c|c|}% (rows,min,max)[tabcolsep]{columns}{rows}
hi & tall one \\
hi & medium one \\
hi & standard one\\
\end{TAB}
\end{document}
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Thank you! Can you also help in this tex.stackexchange.com/questions/159259/… – user1965914 Feb 8 '14 at 8:58
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1done. See answer – user2478 Feb 8 '14 at 9:23
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1But I want one that can automatically span width, and break pages, and ... (My point is that I should have to use a different environment to modify row spacing ;-) ) – lmat - Reinstate Monica Aug 5 '16 at 13:16
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To increase the row height in a table you can either increase the \extrarowheight
through something like
\setlength\extrarowheight{5pt}
or stretch the row through something like
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2}
as Thorsten Donig points out in the above comment.
IMHO, the best way to increase the height and keep the vertical alignment is to add the space when you break the row with \\
, for example with \\[5pt]
.
This is an example (I've exaggerated a little with 50pt
here)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1}}
\newcolumntype{N}{@{}m{0pt}@{}}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{tabular}{|M{4cm}|M{4cm}|N}
\hline
\textbf{Text} & \textbf{Text} &\\[50pt]
\hline
text & text&\\[50pt]
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
\end{document}
Note that I've added a column as the last one defined as @{}m{0pt}@{}
to avoid the issue described here: Vertical alignment in table: m-column, row size - problem in last column.
Output
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2I prefer the
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2}
. I did not see how to use the other method and still set the horizontal alignment, i.e., l/c/r. – Steven C. Howell Nov 12 '15 at 2:50 -
2@stvn66 For left alignment, define
\newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{#1}}
and, for right,\newcolumntype{R}[1]{>{\raggedleft\arraybackslash}m{#1}}
– Sterry Dec 21 '15 at 18:32 -
Unfortunately, the author-preferred solution doesn't work at all, at least not on my machine. 112 upvotes got me and I tried to incorporate this thing without trying. I hope that other people see this comment before trying it out in their work, and try the solution to see if it works at all, despite >100 votes on it. – Utkan Gezer Dec 1 '18 at 21:43
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Using \newcolumntype{N}{@{}m{0pt}@{}} to create an extra 'null' cell is an ingenious idea. Works well – V-Red Aug 2 '19 at 19:51
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Super Simple Solution
I faced similar problem, & found a (not so conventional but) simple way to solve it. Wish, it will help others too.
I had a table like this-
\begin{tabular}{c|ccc}
$x$ & 1 & 2 & 3\\ \hline
$f(x)$ & 1 & 2 & 3
\end{tabular}
And, I wanted to put some extra space before the second row-
So, I inserted an extra empty line-
\begin{tabular}{c|ccc}
$x$ & 1 & 2 & 3\\ \hline
\\
$f(x)$ & 1 & 2 & 3
\end{tabular}
But, now I had put too much space there-
So, I used negative line spacing to reduce it-
\begin{tabular}{c|ccc}
$x$ & 1 & 2 & 3\\ \hline
\\[-1em]
$f(x)$ & 1 & 2 & 3
\end{tabular}
Great! everything was perfect-
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16I really like this solution because it's simple and easy to control. One note is that if you have vertical lines between your other columns you have to add "&&&" as many times as it takes so that the vertical lines connect down. – MsTiggy Jul 23 '16 at 22:38
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5To complete the comment above: avoid disconnection of multiple vertical lines by using:
&&&\\[-1em]
– hanna Mar 10 '18 at 22:50 -
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\extrarowheight
just modify\arraystretch
, e.g. by\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.2}
. – Thorsten Donig Feb 8 '14 at 8:21