tabular & multirow: taking a multirow back to a single

Question

I have a table that I needed multirow for say column 2, but for column 3, I am putting the best result from column 2.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\multirow{2}{*}{A} & 4 & 4\\
                   & 5
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Here A is vertically centered for the multirow. I would like 4 to be able to achieve this same look.

If I do & 4 & 4\\, it will be aligned at the top, and vice verse for 5.

What can I do to achieve my desired result?

Answer 1

May be I am missing something but why don't you use another multi row for 4 like

\multirow{2}{*}{A} & 4 & \multirow{2}{*}{4}\\

Code:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\multirow{2}{*}{A} & 4 & \multirow{2}{*}{4}\\
                   & 5
\end{tabular}

Another one

\begin{tabular}{ccc}
\multirow{4}{*}{A} & 4 & \multirow{4}{*}{4} \\
                   & 5 &                    \\
                   & 3 &                    \\
                   & 1 &
\end{tabular}
\end{document}

Answer 2

You can use stacks, perhaps, instead of multirow. Here I give two examples. Note: the \edef\tmp{\the\baselineskip}\setstackgap{L}{\tmp} in the preamble is necessary, because \baselineskip (the default long-stack skip) is zeroed in the tabular environment.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[usestackEOL]{stackengine}
\edef\tmp{\the\baselineskip}
\setstackgap{L}{\tmp}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
A & \Centerstack{4\\5} & 4
\end{tabular}

\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}
\hline
A & \Centerstack{1\\2\\3\\4\\5} & 4\\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}