# Table without lines

I want to build a table but it is specific. Can u guys help me with that problem?

I know I have to use table and tabular, but I don't know how to put the dashes under dataset and under n=1 and so on.

And I don't want to have those grey and white background colors in the table, because I don't know :P.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[rm={tabular, lining},sf={tabular, lining},tt={monowidth, tabular,
lining}]{cfr-lm}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{courier}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} %Schriftart geändert
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{ccccccccccc}
Data set-1 for the example problem\\
\midrule
1& \
1&0&&&1&4&&1&6\
\end{tabular}
\label{default}
\end{table}
\end{document}

• You don't want alternating colours? – Bernard Jan 4 '17 at 19:42
• @Bernard its hard for me to build the table even without alternating colors-.- – Milo Li Jan 4 '17 at 19:44
• you only need the table environment if you want the table to float. – jakun Jan 4 '17 at 19:58
• if you want to typeset a german document I recommend to use (additionally to \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} which you already have): \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} for being able to insert umlaute directly, \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} for being able to copy and paste umlaute from the pdf and hyphenate words containing umlaute and \usepackage{lmodern} because the font used by T1 fontenc looks not so nice and ligatures could not be copied and pasted from the pdf. – jakun Jan 4 '17 at 20:05
• I think, you should change the title of this question, as you wanted to have lines in your table, don't you? – Jan Jan 4 '17 at 20:20

An alternative solution using cmidrule from booktabs:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt,fleqn]{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[rm={tabular, lining}, sf={tabular, lining},
tt={monowidth, tabular, lining}]{cfr-lm}
\usepackage[onehalfspacing]{setspace}
\usepackage{courier}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\sfdefault} %Schriftart geändert
\usepackage{booktabs}

\begin{document}
\begin{table}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{tabular}{cccccccc}
\multicolumn{8}{l}{Data set-1 for the example problem}\\
\toprule
& & \multicolumn{6}{c}{Job}\\
Stage & Machine & \multicolumn{3}{c}{$n=1$} &
\multicolumn{3}{c}{$n=2$}\\
\cmidrule(lr){3-5}\cmidrule(l){6-8}
$i$ & $m$ &
$S_{m,i,n,0}$ & $S_{m,i,n,1}$ & $S_{m,i,n,2}$ &
$S_{m,i,n,0}$ & $S_{m,i,n,1}$ & $S_{m,i,n,2}$ \\
\midrule
1& 1&40&15&60&30&70&10\\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\label{default}
\end{table}
\end{document}


• WOW! Thank you very much, i try to work with that =) – Milo Li Jan 4 '17 at 19:55
• is there a way to combine the line under n=1 and n=2 to one line ? – Milo Li Jan 4 '17 at 19:57
• @MiloLi: Yes, replace \cmidrule(lr){3-5}\cmidrule(l){6-8} by \cmidrule{3-8}. You can also read booktabs documentation to understand how options like (lr) change the result. – Ignasi Jan 4 '17 at 20:00
• These are new questions. You can start them and make reference to this one. In any case I think you already found them answered here after a little search. – Ignasi Jan 4 '17 at 20:26
• i found the asnwers! but can you tell me how do i put my table in colors like grey and white? i just see rows and colors in other examples, but how can i put complete stage 1 in table 1 in grey? – Milo Li Jan 4 '17 at 20:39

I had a similar question yesterday and the answer was the hhline package in my case.

\usepackage{hhline}
%% ...

\begin{tabular}{ccccccccccc}
\multicolumn{7}{l}Data set-1 for the example problem}\\ \hline
1& \
1&0&&&1&4&&1&6\ \\
\hhline{~----------}
1& \
1&0&&&1&4&&1&6\
\end{tabular}


~ is for no line at that column
- is for a line at that column

there should be as much chars as in the tabular definition itself.

This gets closer to your initial example. The vertical rules are just to demonstrate the centering of the multi column cells.

   \begin{tabular}{ccccccccccc}
\multicolumn{7}{l}{Data set-1 for the example problem}\\ \hline
\multicolumn{2}{c}{} & \multicolumn{6}{|c|}{job}\\
Stage & Mashine & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{n = 1} & \multicolumn{3}{|c|}{n = 2}\\
% Data set-1 for the example problem\\
%\midrule
\hhline{~~---------}
1& \
1&0&22222222&3&1&4&5&1&6&6\ \\ \hline
1& \
1&00000000&2&3&111111111111&4&5555555555&1&6&6 \\
\end{tabular}


• i get an error when i build in your features. – Milo Li Jan 4 '17 at 19:43
• ! Missing \cr inserted. – Milo Li Jan 4 '17 at 19:47
• I see, I put \hhline at the wrong position, I update the answer. – Timothy Truckle Jan 4 '17 at 19:50