Questions tagged [tables]
{tables} is about the tabular environment and related packages such as {array}, {booktabs}, {tabularx}, {tabu} and {longtable}. For questions about the table environment (i.e., about floating or positioning), use {floats} instead.
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My table doesn't fit; what are my options?
I have a table that I want to insert on a page, but at least one (perhaps both) of the following conditions are met:
The table is too wide to fit within the text block or page. That is, I'm exceeding ...
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Column and row padding in tables
How do you guys go about controlling column padding in tables?
Update
To clarify, I'm looking for a way to control both vertical and horizontal padding. So, if I had a simple table like in the ...
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How to create fixed width table columns with text raggedright/centered/raggedleft?
I would like to create a table with some columns' width specified, while the text in those columns should be centered both horizontally and vertically. I found out that
\usepackage{array}
\begin{...
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How to add a forced line break inside a table cell
I have some text in a table and I want to add a forced line break. I want to insert a forced line break without having to specify the column width, i.e. something like the following:
\begin{tabular}{|...
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Comprehensive list of tools that simplify the generation of LaTeX tables
Manually hacking tables in LaTeX is one of the less funny things when preparing a document. Naturally, there are quite a few tools that promise to simplify this. In fact, I have somewhat lost track of ...
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How to put a full-width table at the top or bottom of the same two-column page as the reference text?
I'm posting today because I would like to reduce white space in a document I'm writing.
The content is two-columns but I have floating tables that span across both columns (table*).
At some point, ...
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How can I center a too wide table?
I have a document containing a table which is slightly too wide for the page. But instead of growing to the right side only, I would like to have it centered on the page.
I have tried to use the ...
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How to force a table into page width?
I have the following table:
\begin{table}[htb]
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (table) [inner sep=0pt] {
\begin{tabular}{ l | l }
{\bf Symptom} & {\bf Metric} \\
\hline
Class that has many accessor ...
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How can I have two tables side by side?
Suppose I have two tables that don't have many columns (3, for example). How can I position them side by side?
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Beautiful table samples
I'm interested in learning about some nice-looking table samples. Colors can make a huge difference, and just providing some color to headers, background, or borders can dramatically change ...
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How to vertically-center the text of the cells?
I have a simple table as follows:
\begin{table*}
\centering
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|c|c|c|p{2in}|}
...
...
\end{tabular}
\caption{The factors the camera solver depends on to ...
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Diagonal lines in table cell
I need this table:
(each row and column should have the same height and length, last cell should be divided by diagonal line). I tried the following code:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[...
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Easiest way to delete a column?
I have a set of 10 tables and each has an extra column that I don't want. Specifically, these tables are descriptions of database tables exported by phpMyAdmin, and they all have a "MIME" column that ...
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Table column widths disproportionate due to multicolumn cell being too long
I'm trying to typeset a table that would have a header in the first row (I'm not looking for a different/better solution to adding a header, but for a fix to this solution. Thanks). I want to achieve ...
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Aligning numbers by decimal points in table columns
Let me begin by stating that I did google the answers (and I'll reference to them soon). Yet each of the resources I found discussed one particular method, I'm interested in a comparison of the ...
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Automatic table row numbers
Is there any way to get automatic row numbers in table?
For example, if I define table contents as
\begin{tabular} % black magic column definition
\rownumber & foo\\
\rownumber & bar\\
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Vertical alignment in table: m-column, row size - problem in last column
Unfortunatly, I have a problem with m-columns (array package) in tables with adjusted row height. Somehow in the last column (only there) the text is not centered vertically.
Check it out:
\...
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Balancing long table inside multicol in LaTeX
I would like to put some longer tabular data inside the multicols environment while maintaining its balancing abilities. I have tried supertabular with the trick to redefine \newpage as columnbreak. ...
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Make a table span multiple pages
I have a table that takes up a full page, but I want it to start on a page that already has some text and then continue onto the next page (i.e. it's ok if the table gets broken up and spans two pages)...
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How to vertically center text with an image in the same row of a table
I want to create a table with multiple rows of the following form: a cell that contains text and then multiple cells that contain images. The text should be vertically centered and the contents of ...
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How to use itemize in Table environment
I want to create a table like the picture below, and i wish to itemize the lamba_1 > lamba_2 > 0 using 'item style', which is the cell of each categories. Can someone help me?
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Column-wise break of extra wide tables
I have to plot geochemical data tables that are like this table
, i.e. with a header column, but that have much more sample columns. When having too many columns, the table has to be broken at a ...
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Vertical table lines are discontinuous with booktabs
I created a table in LaTeX, but there are some problems with the borders. The borders remain open whereas I want them closed. Also, in the last row, I want the vertical line gone, ie I want just one ...
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How to rotate text in multirow table?
I have a big table with a problem, when I want to rotate the text in a \multirow cell, the text is placed outside and is bigger than the dimensions of the cell, I took some advice from here, using\...
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Centering in tabularx and X columns
How can I center the column when using X in tabularx environment like in this example?
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{@{}lXXXXX@{}}
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\
\end{tabularx}
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Footnotes in tables?
I would like to have footnotes in tables, but the \footnote command does not work inside a table environment. Googling one finds that this is a frequently asked question, at least in the UK. That ...
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Vertical alignment in tabular cells with variable height
I have the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{ | X | c | }
\hline
\lipsum[1] &...
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Make first row of table all bold
I'm trying to do something that I thought would be relatively simple but seems to be quite hard. I have a table with a number of columns, and I'd like to make all of the titles appear in bold text. ...
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Rotated column titles in tabular
I'd like to create a chart where the column titles are rotated, as per this toy example:
I used the rotating package to generate the above. It has certain shortcomings: the rotate command doesn't ...
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Parametrize shading in table through TikZ
I wanted to do some shading in a table according to its values. For example, if you see the table below:
a b c d
a 90 10 0 0
b 0 80 10 10
c 0 0 95 5
d 0 10 5 85
I want to shade ...
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Adobe Reader and xcolor within a table breaks the line render
I'm using the xcolor package to colour the top row in a table. This is displayed properly using PDF viewers such as Preview or Skim (Mac). But using Adobe Reader 10.1.3 (either Windows or Mac) doesn't ...
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How can I draw a horizontal line spanning only some of the table cells?
In a table, how can I draw a horizontal line that goes only through some of the cells? I mean a line like the one in the Foo and in the Bar area of this table:
+----+-----+
|Foo |1 |2 |
| |1 |2 |
|...
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Why should a table caption be placed above the table?
In the papers I read the caption in figure floats is placed below the figure and in table floats the caption is placed above the table.
I recognize that this is a common style that a lot of people ...
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Combine 4 cells in a table
Here is a simple table.
I want to merge 4 cells. I want to combine the three "this" cells area in this table.
I thought I have to use multirow and multicolum at same time.
However, I could not find ...
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Writing a table with equally spaced columns, based on the widest column
Friends, I'm trying to generate a table in which I have all columns equally spaced (same width). In my case, the width for all columns would be the width of the widest column of the table:
\...
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How can I make a table that takes up more than a single page?
I've got data that I need to include in a table, but there's a lot if it. I've played with the font size and table formatting as much as I can, but the table still won't fit on the page. Is there ...
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Cellcolor overwrites partial horizontal lines (\cline)
So I need to make a colored table with multirows, together with the use of partial horizontal lines. I used \cline which does not work: the \cellcolor-command overwrites the line. This question told ...
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How do I use the ampersand (&) inside a foreach or conditional (or other group/environment) when building tables?
I am trying to build a table, and inside the tabularx environment I would like to have a loop, something like (here is a MWE):
\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{...
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Page-wide table in two-column mode
I want a table that is as wide as the whole page in a document with option twocolumn. The table has to be inserted on the bottom of the page, but that is not necessary.
I've tried:
\begin{table*}[b]
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How to merge columns in a table?
I have this table, but wanted to format the first row. I like to match the two columns of first row, and last two columns of the same first row. Any suggestion on how to do that?
\begin{table}[!h]
\...
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Error with square bracket in table
\begin{table}[ht]
\makebox[\textwidth][c]{
\begin{tabular}{ccccc}
\hline
\hline
[] & [] & [] & [] & []\\
[] & [] & [] & [] & []\\
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tabular input by columns (i.e. transpose a table)
I would like to be able to transpose a tabular(x) table like in the following example. It is not necessary to be completely automated, but I don't want to change the data order, which is a painful and ...
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How to rotate a table?
I have a table and I want to rotate it. The table has 3 rows and 4 columns, and I want to rotate the text inside this table as well. How can I do this?
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How to create alternating rows in a table?
Sometimes you can see in books tables, that have alternating background color for rows in a table to support readability. How I can achieve this with LaTeX?
And yes, I could put macros \odd and \even ...
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Math mode in tabular without having to use $...$ everywhere
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|}
\hline
Column A & Column B \\
\begin{math}
x & y \\
\end{math}
\end{tabular}
This won't let me compile and gives a lot of errors, how do I enable math mode in a ...
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Center column with specifying width in table (tabular enviroment)? [duplicate]
I have table that has long headers and I would like to specify width of the column, but also be able to remain it's centred position.
Something like |c{0.30\textwidth}|.
It is possible? How to ...
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Best way to create an system of equations environment?
I am trying to write a few systems of equations, and I want the terms to be nicely spaced as below
2x + y + 3z = 10 \\
x + y + z = 6 \\
x + 3y + 2z = 13
Now, using some ...
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Preventing itemize environment to insert initial vertical space
I'm using itemize and tables like the following
\begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{>{\ttfamily}llX}
\toprule
\textbf{\rmfamily Operator} & \textbf{Typen} & \textbf{Regel} \\
\midrule
= & ...
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Footnote in tabular environment
It seems as if footnotes would have only a problem with the table environment but in my minimal example non of those answers
Footnotes in Tabulars?
Footnote in table
seem to work for the tabular ...
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How do I color table columns?
I've found question How do I fill table cells with a background color?, but the link to the documentation isn't helping me at all.
I'd like to know how to color a table column given my column code, ...
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