How would one go about making a fancy table like this one? By this I mean the line elements that begin in some column and end in another, as well as text in one cell that seems to overlap multiple cells below its row.
Two simple things.
- Use
booktabs
, it would give you\toprule
, etc. - For partial rulers there is a
\cmidrule
.
Here is a production example.
\begin{table*}
\centering
\caption[Comparison of execution times]{Comparison of execution times.
% \newline
% We state time in
% hours:minutes:seconds.
\textbf{Bold} font denotes best time,
parameters in \emph{italic} designate the configuration we used for
evaluation in
Sections~\ref{sec:comp-vcbm}--\ref{sec:quantitative}.
%
\newline
\enquote{Scale} denotes the minimal key point size. An asterisk
(\textasteriskcentered) marks execution times specially discussed in
Section~\ref{sec:execution-times}. In these cases phase contrast of
unstained cells generates too many small features.}
\label{tab:times}
\let\tabsepbakup\tabcolsep
\setlength{\tabcolsep}{2.8pt}
\begin{tabular}{lcc lccc r}
\toprule
\multicolumn{3}{c}{Specimen} & \multicolumn{4}{c}{Registration} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\multirow{2}{*}{Time}}
%\multicolumn{1}{c}{Time}
\\
% rules!
\cmidrule(r{\tabcolsep}){1-3} \cmidrule(l{\tabcolsep}){4-7} % \cmidrule(r){8-8} % time is multirow
%
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Name} & Side & Slices &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{Method} & Multi-resolution?
& Levels & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Scale} &
\multicolumn{1}{c}{\tiny (hh:mm:ss)} \\
\midrule
\multirow{4}{3.6cm}{Single-stained spleen (Figs.~\ref{fig:specimens-single},
\ref{fig:one-milz-volume}, Chapter~\ref{cha:follikel})} & \multirow{4}{*} {8000} &
\multirow{4}{*}{24} &
Chapter~\ref{cha:vcbm14} & no & -- & 100 & 0:21:11 \\
& & & \cite{elastix} & yes & 4 & -- & 01:01:05 \\
& & & \multirow{2}{*}{our method} & \multirow{2}{*}{yes}
& 2 & 50 & \textbf{0:12:06} \\ % (100, 50)
&&& & & \emph{4} & \emph{10} & 0:49:20 \\
%&&& &
\midrule
\multirow{5}{3.6cm}{Double-stained spleen (Figs.~\ref{fig:specimens-double},
\ref{fig:double-milz-other}\olcomment{, Chapter~\ref{cha:sheaths}})} & \multirow{5}{*}{5032} &
\multirow{5}{*}{24} &
Chapter~\ref{cha:vcbm14} & no & -- & 100 & 0:18:31 \\
& & & \cite{elastix} & yes & 4 &--& 0:23:12 \\
%& & & ours & yes
& & & \multirow{3}{*}{our method} & \multirow{3}{*}{yes} &
%\multirow{2}{*}{2} &
2 &
%% trying to adapt by increasing minimal feature size, from 100,20 to
%% 100,50:
50 & \textbf{0:18:09} \\ % @ 100, 50
&&&&& 2 & 20 & 04:03:14\hangright{\textsuperscript{\textasteriskcentered}} \\ % @ 100,20
% & & & our method & yes
&&&&& \emph{4} & \emph{10} & 14:40:14\hangright{\textsuperscript{\textasteriskcentered}} \\
\midrule
\multirow{5}{3.6cm}{Bone marrow (Figs.~\ref{fig:specimens-km},
\ref{fig:km-z}, Chapter~\ref{cha:km})} & \multirow{5}{*}{4032} & \multirow{5}{*}{30} &
Chapter~\ref{cha:vcbm14} & no & -- &100& 0:12:55 \\
& & & \cite{elastix} & yes & 4 &--& 0:17:43 \\
& & & \multirow{3}{*}{our method} & \multirow{3}{*}{yes}
& 2 &50& \textbf{0:07:07} \\
% ^^^ this is (100, 50)
& & & & & \emph{2} &\emph{20}& 0:13:00 \\
% ^^^ this is (100, 20)
& & & & & \emph{4} &\emph{10}& 0:44:42 \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabular}
\setlength\tabcolsep\tabsepbakup
\end{table*}
PS: Commentaries on the layout and typesetting are welcome.
PPS: I see, I omitted \hangright
, it is not crucial for understanding or something, but still, here it is:
%%% hack for hanging footnotes in the table
\newcommand{\hangleft}[1]{\makebox[0pt][r]{#1}}
\newcommand{\hangright}[1]{\makebox[0pt][l]{#1}}
PPPS: For formatting numbers siunitx
provides some new column styles.
booktabs
package. Please provide a minimal working example to get further (code) help. – TeXnician Aug 30 '17 at 16:17\multicolumn
command. For rules spanning one or several columns, use the\cmidrule
command provided by thebooktabs
package. – Michael Palmer Aug 30 '17 at 16:28