LaTeX/Tables. Tables are a common feature in academic writing, often used to summarise research results. Mastering the art of table construction in LaTeX is therefore necessary to produce quality papers and with sufficient practice one can print beautiful tables of any kind. Keeping in mind that LaTeX is not a spreadsheet, it makes sense to use a dedicated tool to build tables and then to export these tables into the document. Basic tables are not too taxing, but anything more advanced can take a fair bit of construction; in these cases, more advanced packages can be very useful.
However, first it is important to know the basics. For a long time, LaTeX tables were quite a chaotic topic, with dozens of packages doing similar things, while not always being compatible with one another. The tabular environment[edit] The tabular environment can be used to typeset tables with optional horizontal and vertical lines. The first line of the environment has the form: Basic examples[edit] Here is a simple example. Big list - Beautiful table samples.
Tex core - how to use \loop ... \repeat to generate an arbitrary number of rows in a table. Syntax - Enhancing a table. Paragraph line break alignment in table. Tables - Getting to grips with LaTeX. By Andrew Roberts In academic writing, tables are a common feature, often for summarising results from research. It is therefore a skill that needs mastering in order to produce good quality papers. However, if there is one area about Latex that I feel is the least intuitive, then I am afraid that this is it. Basic tables are not too taxing, but you will quickly notice that anything more advanced can take a fair bit of construction.
So, we will start slowly and build up from there. The Tabular environment To begin, we shall first get familiar with some Latex terminology. \begin{environment-name} ... ... The tabular is another such environment, designed for formatting your data into nicely arranged tables. Once in the environment, Note, any white space inserted between these commands is purely down to ones' preferences. There also exists a handy array package which extends some of the features of the tabular environment. Very basic table Expanding upon that by including some vertical lines: How to add space after \hline in LaTeX tables. Height - How to make a row in a table shorter. TableTricks. LaTeX Table Tips [peteryu.ca] This page documents a few tricks for making LaTeX tables that I found useful when writing my thesis and preparing various publications.
Just a quick note: For all examples on this page that use a tabular environment, you should put the tabular within a table environment if you want to make it an “official” table with caption, label and float position. If coding tables by hand seems tedious, you can also cheat by converting Excel spreadsheets to LaTeX tables. Set both column width and column alignment Column widths in tables are specified by column type p, e.g.: p{3cm}, which will make a column 3 cm wide. However, by default p columns are left aligned. To specify alignment for fixed width columns, you need to specify the alignment of the p columns.
First, you need to use the array package in your document: \usepackage{array} Specify the width and alignment of each table column with code from the following example: \tabularnewline The column types used above are: \usepackage{calc} First page: Color tables (chap08-scr) Adventures in LaTeX formatting, part 2: longtables « A. Wintcher. The next problem my friend had was with longtables. This required a bit more fiddling than I would have liked, because of the content of the data in the tables. They were originally broken up into smaller tables that dealt with particular themes, but her supervisor wanted them to be combined. The two long tables had to be less than three pages, and had a column of text that needed to wrap to more than one line on some rows.
Each item was presented in two rows: the first with a value, and the second with a standard error statistic, which was enclosed in parentheses. I used dcolumn to create a column type that was aligned on the decimal point, rather than creating a separate column for the numbers to the left and right of the decimal point. The d columns were created like so:\usepackage{dcolumn} %align numbers by decimal point \newcolumntype{d}[1]{D{.}{.}{#1}} % D{sep.tex}{sep.dvi}{number.format} In this case the table had 5 columns altogether. But it doesn’t work in a longtable. Like this: How do I fill table cells with a background color.
LaTeX/Tables. Spacing - In array env how to add extra space between two columns and how to have enumeration across rows? The answer to How to enumerate the rows of a table may not satisfy you, since it numbers all the rows. I suggest a modification, also for allowing you to refer to the row numbers via the \label-\ref mechanism. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{array} \newcounter{formalproof} \newenvironment{formalproof} {\setcounter{formalproof}{0}% \begin{tabular}{ @{} >{\refstepcounter{formalproof}\theformalproof. $}l<{$} @{\hspace{2em}} l @{} } \multicolumn{1}{@{}l@{\hspace{2em}}}{\textbf{Step}} & \multicolumn{1}{@{}l@{}}{\textbf{Reason}}\\} {\end{tabular}} \begin{document} \noindent\begin{formalproof} \label{ONE} \forall x(D(x)\to C(x)) & Premise \\ \label{TWO} D(\textrm{Marla})\to C(\textrm{Marla}) & Universal instantiation from (\ref{ONE}) \\ \label{THR} D(\textrm{Marla}) & Premise \\ C(\textrm{Marla}) & Modus ponens from (\ref{TWO}) and (\ref{THR}) \end{formalproof} \end{document} The labels you use are arbitrary, of course.