I have two tables side by side. I want to trick readers into seeing this as one table, by widening the toprule
command.
In the MWE below I want to join the toprule
of the cats table to the dogs table, and the same for the bottom rule and mid rules.
This is a sneaky way of entering table data by order of column, rather than by rows.
The MWE is
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}[t]{l}\toprule
cat\\
cat\\
cat\\
cat\\
cat\\
cat\\\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\begin{tabular}[t]{l}\toprule
dog\\
dog\\
dog\\
dog\\
dog\\
dog\\\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
\end{tabular}
? Add a%
right after to remove the space