I am trying to use the tabu environment as I have heard it is sort of the latest and greatest in table making. I am having a weird issue where the text is spilling in the cells below when using multirow. I have included a MWE below (I have not cleaned up the usepackages just in case there are some issues there - I may have things in there that are conflicting or redundant. Some of the things under the TABLE STUFF comment is from other experiments. Essentially I am trying to just find the easiest table solution.
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
\usepackage{tocloft}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
colorlinks,
citecolor=black,
filecolor=black,
linkcolor=black,
urlcolor=black
}
%%%%%TABLE STUFF
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage[flushleft]{threeparttable}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{booktabs,caption}
\usepackage{array}
\newcolumntype{M}[1]{>{\centering\arraybackslash}m{#1\textwidth}}
\newcolumntype{L}[1]{>{\raggedright\arraybackslash}m{#1\textwidth}}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{tabulary}
\usepackage{tabu}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures
\newpage
\listoftables
\newpage
\begingroup
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{tabu} to \textwidth {X X X X X}
\toprule
Quantity & Symbol & Defining Equation & SI Unit & Units Definition \\ \midrule
mass & m & \multirow{4}{\linewidth}{Basic physical units defined arbitrarily and maintained in standardization laboratories} & kilogram (kg) \\
length & l & & meter (m) \\
time & t & & second (s) \\
current & I & & ampere (A) \\
force & F & F = mass * acceleration & newton (N) & 1 N = 1 kgms-2 \\
energy & E & E = Force * length & joule (J) & 1 J = 1 kgm2 s-2 \\
power & P & P = E / t & watt (W) & 1 W = 1 J/s \\
frequency & f, v & number per second & hertz (Hz) & 1 Hz = 1 s-1 \\
charge & Q & Q = I t & coulomb (C) & 1 C = 1 A s \\
potential & V & V = E / Q & volt (V) & 1 V = 1 J/C \\
\multirow{2}{*}[-1.05ex]{absorbed dose} & D & E absorbed from ionizing radiation per kg & gray (Gy) & 1 Gy = 1 J / kg \\
& & & & 1 Gy = 100 rads \\
exposure & X & Q liberated by ionizing radiation per kg of air & C kg-1 & roentgen, R (old) \\
& & & & 1 R = 2.58x10-4 C/kg \\
activity & A & disintigrations of radioactive material per t & becquerel (Bq) & 1 Bq = 1 s-1 \\
& & & & 1 Ci (curie, old) = 3.7x1010 Bq \\
\bottomrule
\end{tabu}
\endgroup
\end{document}
tabu
package is currently unmaintained. (See: github.com/tabu-issues-for-future-maintainer/tabu) I'd recommenttabularx
instead.hyperref
package should generally (with a few exceptions) be the last package in a preamble.siunitx
package.