Series overview Introduction to colors The colortbl package The xcolor package The colortab package 1. Introduction to colors Colors constitute the human visual interpretation of light waves of different wavelengths. Color models There exist several models to represent colors. We will examine the three that are provided by the <a href="https://ctan.org/pkg/color" target="_blank" rel="noopener">color</a> … [Read more…]
Since Apple introduced alternately colored rows in their lists in Mac OS X, it has become more and more popular to color tables in LaTeX in a similar fashion. Usually, this can be achieved fairly easily, see my post on the topic here. However, when using multirow, things become slightly more complicated. In this post, … [Read more…]
When multirow cells in LaTeX tables are colored, the text is partially hidden as illustrated by the example below. This happens because the color of the second row is added after typesetting the text of the first row. Solution: There is a simple solution to this problem. If the multirow command is placed in … [Read more…]
I always forget how to do this. If you have the same problem, here is a quick post for your bookmarks… Basic commands Using * as width in the multirow command, the text argument’s natural width is used (multirow package documentation). Multiple columns Multiple rows Multiple rows and columns The examples … [Read more…]