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Increase LaTeX table row height
Super Simple Solution
I faced similar problem, & found a (not so conventional but) simple way to solve it. Wish, it will help others too.
I had a table like this-
\begin{tabular}{c|ccc}
$x$ &...
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My table doesn't fit; what are my options?
Let's first identify what we're referring to when we use the term "table". The typical table environment is a float, and can contain anything: a paragraph of text, an image, or even a ...
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How to left align text in a table with \makecell
You just have to write \makecell[l]{…} if you want to left-align (it is vertically and horizontally centred by default).
However, rather than using \resizebox I would suggest one of these two ...
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Adding space between columns in a table
If you need to adjust the spacing for just one table you could also add/remove some space before the table and restore previous value after it:
\addtolength{\tabcolsep}{-1pt}
\begin{tabular}{cc} ...
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newline in multirow environment
There is several ways to do it. A very simple way is using \shortstack
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{multirow}
\begin{document}
\begin{...
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Table with multiple lines in some cells
Another possible solution — my preferred one in my use-cases so far as I wanted full control to what comes in which line while being as concise as possible — is using the makecell package, which would ...
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How to center the table in Latex
You can also use \begin{center} ... \end{center}. This works better with beamer for example because {\centering ... } messes with the size of the table for some reason. The new code would be:
\begin{...
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Tip on how to make a visually good table
I suggest you read the booktabs package documentation. Very good advices are given in there about table formatting and I think it is a good introduction on the subject.
About your example, the ...
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Right alignment for p{length} box in tabular
Insert one of the commands \raggedright, \centering, or \raggedleft into the parbox depending on whether the paragraph should be typeset flush left, centered, or flush right.
\documentclass{article}
\...
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The space between the table and its caption is very small
My attention was drawn to this question by another one that had been posted on TeX-LaTeX Meta. In spite of having been asked almost six years ago, not only—IMHO, of course!—is this question still ...
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How does the \newcolumntype command work?
The array package documentation, on pages 2 and 3 has the explanations:
Additional explanation
To answer your specific question:
\newcolumntype{Y}{>{\small\raggedright\arraybackslash}X}
defines ...
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What is the difference between tabular, tabular* and tabularx environments?
Check out the following MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|l|c|r|}
\hline
foo & bar & fubar \\
fubar & toobar & foo \\
...
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Reducing column separation between specific columns
The column specification allows for the insertion of @{<stuff>} between columns. If <stuff> is empty (as in @{}), no column gap is inserted, while the "default" is @{\hspace{\tabcolsep}} ...
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How can I draw this complex table in LaTeX?
I'd like to propose you choose a layout that's quite different from the screenshot shown in your query. While that layout features a certain hierarchy of objects, the multitude of line styles give it ...
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“Paragraph ended before \verbatim@ was complete.” when trying to use verbatim in tabular
Use \begin{frame}[fragile]. This option is needed when the content contains verbatim.
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labels with tabular
You can't \label a tabular, because a tabular does not receive an intrinsic ordering scheme (aka a number) that can be referenced. But if you place the tabular inside of a table, you can \label that.
...
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Text alignment on top with multirow command
This is easily handled with the newly updated multirow command. There is an option that specifies vertical text alignment; put [t] for top alignment.
In your example you would write:
\multirow[t]{3}{...
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Setting table-width exactly to linewidth
I think you have two good choices and a (likely) dreadful choice:
Use a tabular* environment,
Use a tabularx environment (or its close cousin, tabulary)
Use the basic tabular environment and scale ...
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newline in multirow environment
Simple with makecell, which is done for this sort of things: use the \multirowcell command (syntax even simpler than \multirow):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[frenchb]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{...
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What is the difference between tabular, tabular* and tabularx environments?
I will begin by showing a screenshot of tabular, tabular* and tabularx versions of one and the same, admittedly contrived, table. The material in the first column is left-aligned; the material in the ...
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Repeating the same column type
No pgffor package is required for this; just write your table preamble as:
\begin{tabular}{l *{6}{n{2}{3}}}
The general syntax is:
*{n}{column(s) pattern}
where n is the number of repetitions, ...
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Changing width of table lines
Update
Use \arrayrulewidth from the preamble and place it before the desired table using a group to keep the change to \arrayrulewidth local:
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{array}
\begin{...
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Convert this table to latex
As shown, this is a relatively complex table to format well since it requires the following elements:
rotated cells -> rotating package
cells which span multiple columns -> \multicolumn{<number of ...
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How to add a forced line break inside a table cell
Here I use stacks to accomplish it. Several things are noteworthy:
I demonstrate \Longstack , \Longunderstack and \Centerstack, which give three different alignments.
In order not to squeeze against ...
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Add notes under the table
You can use {\raggedright insert notes here \par} after \end{tabular} but before \end{table}:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
\centering
\caption{Sample ANOVA table}
...
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Beautiful table samples
Unfortunately, as of 2018-11-12, the tabu package is still unmaintained (see repository) and color are not working anymore.
Therefore my example below is not working.
Here is my modest contribution. ...
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Drawing Karnaugh's maps in LaTeX
Some days ago (Nov. 26), Mattias Jacobsson uploaded his karnaugh-map package to CTAN. Now instead of the code in my alternative answer you can use a real package.
karnaugh-map is also based in ...
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How to create a table with fixed column widths
This workaround in the preamble solves the problem. You can simply use C{width} for centered entries. Replace C with L or R if raggedright or raggedleft is favoured.
\usepackage{array}
\newcommand{\...
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Autofit a table to the column width
EDIT
@Mico pointed out a much better solution to this problem, as tabularx already comes with the column type X, which automatically does what you want:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tabularx}...
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